Word: ink
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...digital scoreboard turns over a tens digit in any of these categories, a bucket of something, such as embarrassing red ink or even cod scallops, will pour from the ceiling onto the offender. This negative reinforcement hopefully will act as a subtle deterrent, reminding the speaker to curtail unnecessary pseudo-intellectual verbiage in his lectures...
...rate, from 3.5% to 3%. The largely symbolic gesture was intended to mollify U.S. Treasury Secretary James Baker and other American officials who have called for West Germany to expand its economy as a way to sop up more U.S. imports and, along with them, some of the red ink in the $170 billion U.S. foreign trade deficit. Japan was said to be ready to make a similar move, but before that, Japanese Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa suddenly flew to Washington for a private 2 1/2-hour chat with Baker. The only visible result of their efforts was a four-paragraph...
...Elms, chasing a poacher, trekked to Dallas' winter quarters at Bull Camp, a secluded stretch of sage about 110 miles south of Boise. They confronted Dallas and searched his camp, where they discovered deer meat and bobcat hides. Pogue, a no-nonsense officer with a flair for pen-and-ink sketches, told the poacher he'd broken the game laws. An argument ensued. Though Dallas claims Pogue started to draw first, the jumpy poacher blasted Pogue with his .357 Ruger Security-Six revolver, then spun and nailed Elms. He finished them off with a .22 Marlin rifle bullet behind...
...trace of self-consciousness. Particularly good is Gary Sloan, who keeps the part of Moe Axelrod from sliding into a hysterical morass of cliche and mannerism. How he can deliver lines to the woman he's in love with like "I wrote my name on you. I'm indelible ink" with a straight face is beyond me, but he does...
Seven years ago Ronald Reagan ran for President calling for a "New Beginning" for the country. But for the current generation of college students, Reagan's wholesale assault on student aid programs means a beginning shrouded in red ink...