Word: eye
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...worldwide standard for quality just as his grandfather Rihachi made Mizuno baseballs the standard in Japan. It was Rihachi who decreed that when an official Japanese ball was dropped from a height of 16 1/2 ft., it had to bounce 4 1/2 ft. That just happened to be the eye level of the diminutive company founder. Today his grandson, who is 5 ft. 5 in. tall, has set his sights considerably higher...
...have pushed the developer's holdings into a chain reaction of defaults. "This is a deal that will go down in the textbooks as the way banks and entrepreneurs should deal with each other," Trump declared. Not everybody agreed. Said a banker: "I think it's a tremendous black eye on the American banking system when a guy who acts the way he does gets $2 billion in loans...
...adds about the same amount to the West German money supply. If spent, the freshly minted DMs will have the same effect on growth as a sizable tax cut. When this new demand hits a West German economy operating close to capacity, the Bundesbank will be keeping a wary eye on developments. Bundesbank president Karl Otto Pohl calls the 1-to-1 conversion "a generous offer that went to the limit of what is economically acceptable." But he believes inflation can be contained...
...restaurant seems to begin with le or la, and every other menu includes a dish or two from faraway places. Better off than ever before, West Germans are spending fortunes to keep up with the Schmidts; money appears to be no object ( in the pursuit of distinctive art or eye-catching design in clothes, cars, houses, even the simplest household objects. A society long praised -- and sometimes derided -- for an overgrown work ethic has turned its restless energies to the cultivation of leisure. Enveloped in superlatives, West Germany has emerged as one of the world's most affluent societies...
Even for seasoned veterans of gory movies, some of the deaths are a bit too much--one bad guy gets his eye put out by an icicle. And for the sake of realism, the same blood Willis gets on his hands from his first killing stays on him for the rest of the movie. In every scene, Willis just gets messier and messier, and by the end of the picture, bits of brain are dripping...