Word: hovered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reaganomics package passed last year would stimulate the economy some time soon if given the chance to work. Though he had run on a platform of balancing the budget, the President all but ignored the projections of deficits approaching $100 billion. He scarcely noted that interest rates still hover at investment-ravaging levels. And the worst problem of all at the moment, unemployment (see cover story), prompted only a few passing words of concern. Summarized Reagan: "In the near future, the state of the union and the economy will be better, much better, if we summon the strength to continue...
...atmosphere of a San Clemente golf club locker room; golf is a worrier's game, inward, concentrated, a matter of inches, invented by the same people who gave us Presbyterianism. It is a land of Jack Daniels and Vietnamese maids, of luxurious home sprinkler systems, of helicopters which hover over the city to catch purse snatchers making their grabs on the main streets and then disappearing into arroyos of impenetrable chaparral in the canyons...
...much so that during the Turkish atrocities in Armenia, one French cartoonist drew some observers in front of a hut festooned with severed limbs, exclaiming, "What fine models for Rodin!" Presumably this lopsided equation of the fictive violence of art with the real violence of history is meant to hover, in quotes, above Kitaj's nude; but it seems very contrived...
...they huddled in serious conversation, Mortada's face went white. Soon others learned that something terrible had occurred in Cairo and scurried to back rooms to hover around radios. By then, Radio Cairo was broadcasting only music...
...Atlantic coral reef and the deep sea. Scores of trigger fish, tiger fish, parrot fish, grunts and blow fish swim in a traffic jam of color through the coral reef. Below, sea turtles and rays settle into the simulated depths, sometimes with understandable uneasiness, as eight species of shark hover near...