Word: flints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recession, because we had this recession coming on since 1979. You have only to look at the statistics of 1980 to know that was a recession. In fact, I at one time called it a depression. Everyone wanted to scold me for it, but when I was in Flint, Mich., with unemployment at 20%, I figured that was a depression...
...were good prospects for this revamped system. Says William Howard, Piedmont's president: "We looked for those routes that were underserved, where there was a need for flights." New territory opened up as the big trunk airlines cut small-volume flights to such Midwestern cities as Grand Rapids, Flint, Toledo and Fort Wayne. Last July Piedmont inaugurated its second hub at Dayton. Says Howard: "Those service-devastated Midwestern cities form the heart of our new service...
...core of the Social Security crisis is not just a temporary accounting problem, or the unwillingness of flint-hearted conservatives in Congress to pay for it, but the long-term demographic impossibility of maintaining Social Security as it is currently conceived. Medical advances have extended the average life span so that more people are retiring than was ever expected. Back when FDR first conceived so Social Security, only one American in 20 was over 65. Now the figure is one in 10, and in 50 years will be one in five...
...mannered assault on a President in the august East Room under the daunting gaze of George and Martha Washington. Second, Gary Richard Arnold, the congressional candidate from Santa Cruz, Calif, (slogan: LOOKS LIKE LENIN, TALKS LIKE LINCOLN), who provoked Reagan, was the perfect person to spark the Irish flint, suspected but rarely revealed publicly, beneath then smiling, benign Reagan surface...
...sudden plunge back into the ice age sent statisticians to the record books. According to the National Weather Service, temperatures for April plummeted to new lows in seven U.S. cities, including 6°F in Flint, Mich., and 26° in Augusta, Ga., where torrential rains interrupted the first round of the Masters golf tournament. In Virginia, turbulent winds fanned a fire that destroyed the outdoor performing-arts center at Wolf Trap Farm National Park. In Detroit, a 6-in. snowfall brought the winter's total to 73 in.-the most for the motor city in more than...