Word: heights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most important bits of business that Congress left unfinished last week was lifting the federal debt ceiling, which already stands at a Himalayan height of $1.57 trillion. Without a higher debt limit, the U.S. Treasury could lose its license to borrow and have a serious cash-flow problem beginning as early as this week. That prospect is unthinkable for a free-spending Government that even by optimistic Administration projections will chalk up a deficit of $166.9 billion in fiscal 1985, which began...
...amount of pain it would cause for one more student to be added to a suite depends on such factors as height of ceilings, size of windows, and even placement of doors and closets, in addition to the amount of floor space in each room...
...public documents. Jane's detailed, fact-crammed 300-page book (price: $29.95) does, however, present a compelling look into space technology being developed by both the U.S. and the Soviet Union. "Given what we're doing," admitted one high-ranking Air Force officer, "it's the height of hypocrisy to cry wolf about the Russians...
Lessing, 64, author of such works as The Golden Notebook and Briefing for a Descent into Hell, is one of the most serious and protean writers in the world. Why did she stop at the height of her career to play the prankster? Her intent, as she explains in the preface to an upcoming one-volume paperback edition of the Somers novels, was partly to show how difficult it is for the work of unknown authors to attract wide attention. On a more personal level, she wanted to twit the critics who have insisted on pigeonholing her: first...
...British intelligence, had been secretly spying for the Soviets, writers and directors have returned time and again to the case as classic source material. Scores of books of both fact and fiction have played on the public's endless astonishment at the depths of the treachery, which, at the height of the Cold War, reached into Britain's most prized military secrets...