Word: glow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least part of Japan's robust glow comes not so much from genuine growth as from enormous and potentially inflationary deficit spending, which last year totaled 40% of the government's budget. The deficits were designed to lift domestic demand for Japanese products as the slowing world economy and increasing protectionist sentiments abroad began to cut into exports. In 1980 real growth is expected to slide from a current annual rate of 6.3% to 4.8%, and inflation to rise from 4.5% to at least...
Soon the pink glow dissipated and lights dotted the Hancock tower and the Prudential building. The skyline of downtown Boston became inconsequential as the rigs crossed the finish near the B.U. boathouse...
While enjoying the glow of success...
Baker's store carries an assortment of T shirts bearing legends like "Happiness is a cool reactor" and "Hell no, we won't glow" that are selling well. Joyce Yinger has an even bigger stock of nuclear memorabilia. In addition to T shirts, she has ceramic lamps shaped like cooling towers, T.M.I. belt buckles, and even a gag T.M.I. vasectomy kit. "Business was just great last summer," she said. "It'll pick up again when the tourists start coming." And once the weather starts to clear, visitors should be descending upon the area, if what happened last...
...finally realized that puffs of fog pouring onto the dance floor, presumably from a machine underneath, caused the dense smokiness in the room. The anaesthetized audience basking in the glow of red lights sat on overstuffed leather loveseats or leaned against the walls. At the bar, wine cost four marks; all other drinks cost six. Jon soon reappeared, and he bought us both something sweet. Margrit's friend, a pianist, asked us to come to his private recital the next day, and invited us for tea beforehand...