Word: feed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Island and a group of Congressmen, around to watch the balloting. Said Chafee: "Anybody who looks at this and fails to be impressed is just immune to sensitivity." Agreed Angier Biddle Duke, a Democrat who had served as Ambassador to El Salvador in 1952-53: "The U.S. spent chicken feed here, and in return for that investment we have seen El Salvador take a quantum leap forward in its democratic process. Americans can take pride in helping El Salvador take its place among the democratic nations of the world." Upon their return to the U.S., the official observers issued...
...foreign debt stands at $40 billion, unemployment is over 20 percent, while underemployment (the number of people who work no more than one hour each day) has reached 30 percent. But the situation is not hopeless. Argentina has enough oil alone to power all of its industry and can feed a population 28 times its size. Its detoriorating economy is largely a result of a decade without economic growth, caused by 50 years of inept military rule (Since the '30s all but eight of 24 Argentine presidents have been military leaders). Before the military took over running the economy, Argentina...
...friends tell stories of some remarkably decent gesture. Yet she is also capable of casual rudeness. Hamill describes her as "nicer these days. But for a while she abused weak targets. She had 19 secretaries come and go." She still likes to feed herself out of serving bowls, using serving utensils, apparently without a thought for the hygiene of the other people in the room. For all her years of searching, she does not present a consistent image of herself: she insists that she is shy, lazy and "made for a mountaintop," but explains her frenzied schedule by saying...
...save by Smith ignited the Islanders and Bossy, their most potent weapon, collected the decisive goal at 16:40. Defenseman Ken Morrow penetrated deep into the Canadiens' zone and, as he was knocked to the ice, backhanded a feed in front of the net to Bossy...
...Business, on the other hand, seems deterministic and dryly rational. Because business disdains personality and glorifies the ability to get a job done efficiently, it does not lend itself to fiction. Just try imagining a novel about the life of a venture capitalist, Fiction has and will continue to feed upon the private realm and hunt in the margins of life...