Word: lest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prime U.S. real estate. SAMA'S vast holdings of dollars, German marks and Japanese yen are a worrisome wild card in money markets from New York to Tokyo. Adding to SAMA'S menacing aura is its abiding secrecy. Western moneymen guard the identity of most Saudi investments lest they be blacklisted from SAMA's select roll of middlemen...
...FALLOWS points out, there are two rigid and opposing orthodoxies on the question of national defense. On the left, activists splash blood on the Pentagon and protest every weapons system the military requests. From the right, tougher-than-thou Congressmen endorse every bad idea that comes out of Lockheed, lest the Russians gain an edge. And in the middle there's been next to no one combining expertise and objectivity. Fallows, one of the nation's best reporters, begins to fill that center with his new bestseller, National Defense...
...stuck with the mountains of butter, cheese and dry milk that it already owns. Secretary of Agriculture John Block wants authority to unload some of the Government's butter on world markets at a competitive price before it turns rancid. But Secretary of State Alexander Haig worries lest any additional butter on the world market be bought up by the Soviet Union. Now that the Government has lifted its grain embargo to the U.S.S.R., Haig seems to be saying, "All the bread you want, but no butter...
...bottom came up under the starboard quarters. This gave the mate a fine opportunity to have killed him with a throw of his lance. His first impulse was to do so, but on a second look, observing his tail directly beneath the rudder, his better judgment prevailed lest a flourish of the tail should unhang the rudder and render the ship unmanageable...
...milk production. At least 33 different species are susceptible, mostly such cloven-hoofed creatures as cattle, sheep, pigs, goats and deer. For farmers the usual recourse is to kill, burn and bury infected livestock. Often an entire herd must be slaughtered, even if only one animal has been stricken, lest the disease spread. Some years ago, British authorities had to kill more than 280,000 animals to contain a major outbreak...