Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pleading for months for relief from the pummeling they have been taking from Japan. While sales of American-made cars have been slumping, Japanese-made Datsuns and Toyotas, Mazdas and Hondas have been streaming through U.S. ports at the rate of some 6,000 vehicles a day. The import flood has given Japan 23% of the entire U.S. car market. General Motors Chairman Roger Smith last week urged a "short-term voluntary" cutback in imports and warned that the alternative was a trade war with Japan. In Washington and Tokyo the Reagan Administration and the government of Prime Minister Zenko...
...pessimism occurs toward the end of his life, in the 1510s, with the deluge drawings. In them, the spiral that was his sign for life becomes the symbol, and instrument, of ultimate destruction. Perhaps the germ of these drawings lay in his witnessing, as Clark has suggested, some great flood resembling the one that hit Florence in 1966. In those rhythmical, abstract spirals, like vast shavings from a plane, that emanate from the tumbling mountain, the exploding lake and the destroying clouds, Leonardo found his sign for the dissolution of all matter: infinite energy, seen with detachment. These were...
...years old (prevailing estimates are that its age is about 4.6 billion years); the planets, stars and all living things were literally created in six days by a "Designer"; the different species of plants and animals were created, they did not evolve from any other species; a great flood was the chief force that shaped the face of the earth, in the process drowning the creatures now found as fossils...
...Quite a few" Harvard students visited the store when it first opened, Hurst said, but she added that the flood had slowed to a trickle, especially during reading and exam periods...
...have got this large figure of unemployment, which causes great distress. We try to alleviate it by every method possible. What we do is called selective help. Where areas are absolutely at their worst, we give special help. That's much better than just saying we'll flood the economy with printed money. The moment you pump in bad money it debases the value of good money. Before the end of this year there should be an improvement as companies start to build up their stocks again...