Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that some large issues are going to be entertained. He introduces his hero, Dick Pierce, in a skiff, floating among the creeks and inlets of coastal Rhode Island. In paragraph two, Pierce ponders the marsh grass around him and has an insight: "Only the spartinas thrived in the salt flood, shut themselves against the salt but drank the water. Smart grass. If he ever got his big boat built he might just call her Spartina, though he ought to call her after his wife...
...rate commensurate with the risk. If it's a second mortgage, the going rate can be 16% or more, but it's all the more important to ascertain the true market value of the property and obtain other collateral. You must be certain that there's title, fire and flood insurance on the property and that your mortgage is recorded properly. And you should never assume that a property appraised at $300,000 today will yield anything near $300,000 in the event of foreclosure. The appraisal might have been high, selling costs will typically eat up at least...
...dark area against the open glare of unpainted canvas. Color is the chief subject of her pictorial intelligence, her main vehicle of feeling. But every patch of color must have a bounding edge, and Frankenthaler's edges tend to wobble; they are overcomplicated; in some paintings, like Flood, 1967, they just go limp. She is undistinguished as a drafter -- in fact, some of her mature style is an evasion of drawing -- and this helps account for the pulpy side of her lyricism...
...enforcement of its own power. But that naked truth has traditionally been disguised with Marxist economics and ideology. To the extent that he de- Communized the economy and discredited ideology, Deng diminished the party's claim to legitimacy. He left the party all the more vulnerable to the flood of discontent that has so stunned the world in recent days. An improvement in living standards is not enough to meet the needs of the people. As a student banner in Tiananmen Square put it, WE LOVE RICE, BUT WE LOVE DEMOCRACY MORE...
...Crimson attack swam through the flood of B.C. players and opened the lead to 7-3 before the Eagles could sail one by Leary...