Word: feverishly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Much of the money came from the Bombay Stock Exchange, which is now a feverish financial center. On weekdays, hundreds of sweating, shoving and shouting traders fill an entire floor, recording transactions in soiled and curled-up note pads with leaky ball-point pens. As they jostle through the crowd in search of buyers or sellers, the action often becomes so intense that fights break out. For all that, the exchange has been one of the top performers in the world during the past two years. Prices have doubled since Rajiv Gandhi took office, and new stocks are regularly listed...
...called their journal Ver Sacrum (Sacred Spring) and practiced, as a matter of principle, a manic cross-fertilization. With Klimt, art became overtly decorative, gold-inlaid portraits masquerading as rich bijoux; with Hoffmann and his Wiener Werkstatte collaborator Koloman Moser, bowls and chairs aspired to art. It was a feverish, unresolved time, and the Viennese fin-de-siecle impulse was to savor the exquisitely confused cultural moment...
Since April, crews have been working 18 hours a day on Liberty Island. The pitch seemed both unusually feverish and collaborative one bright, windy afternoon last week. There is no pushing back this Friday's deadline. Up in the statue's crown, a Mexican worker--an immigrant!--put finishing touches on new interior copper sheathing, while Project Architect John Robbins of the Park Service complimented the man on his finesse at riveting an eccentric, angular piece of metal...
...budget that might satisfy lawmakers and the President while meeting the $144 billion deficit ceiling set by the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings law. It was enough to drive the Senator, a reformed chain smoker, back to bumming cigarettes from the Capitol doorkeepers. Near the end of a week of feverish bargaining, Domenici stepped out of a conference with Majority Leader Bob Dole and was asked, "What do you think?" He replied, "I think this is a crazy place and I've got a terrible...
...bill to be $2.8 billion instead of a previously estimated $4.8 billion. The developing world's largest debtor, Brazil has been able to keep up with its payments lately, thanks to a roaring economy that grew 8% last year. But the country will have to curb that feverish growth to cut inflation, which reached 233% in 1985 and appeared to be headed for 500% this year. Last week President Jose Sarney announced a "life-and-death struggle" to halt the spiral by freezing wages and prices for a year and virtually abolishing the country's cost of living adjustments...