Word: lest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good news had a gloomy tinge. Unemployment dropped slightly, to 6% of the labor force in February from 6.2% the month before, and new orders received by manufacturers rose 3.6% in January. Those reports only intensified a paradoxical fear among bankers, economists and even some politicians. They worry lest the Administration's policies will not bring a recession this year. In their view, only a slump can curb inflation; if it does not occur, and prices keep skyrocketing, the economy may be headed for a real bust later. "The figures show that we are still probably...
...lest Princeton fans rejoice in Desaulniers' final match against the Tigers, there is something they should know: Mike's younger brother Brad has applied to Harvard. The younger Desaulniers has twice reached the finals of the U.S. Junior Open...
...World War II Pax Americana. In 1955 John Foster Dulles helped set up what became known as the Central Treaty Organization (CENTO) as part of a global network of anti-Soviet alliances. In effect, Dulles was drawing a line in the dust that the Soviets dared not step across lest they incur the thermonuclear wrath of the West. That line ran along the northern frontiers of Turkey, Iran and Pakistan, which were all members of CENTO. In keeping with Afghanistan's policy of nonalignment, it remained beyond the American "security perimeter" and was therefore vulnerable to its giant neighbor...
Dugal and Bertrand plan to analyze the urine of 175 athletes every day. And lest any think that they are home free after a clean test, there is the cautionary tale of the East bloc Weight Lifter Valentin Christov. After an early test at the Montreal Games showed that he was clean, he apparently began stoking steroids. A gold medalist, he was automatically selected for a second test. This time the drugs were detected in his urine and he lost his medal and went home in disgrace...
Economic warfare may be an uncertain weapon, its consequences hard to measure in economic terms, but it is ultimately a form of political warfare and must be assessed in that connection too. Carter's judgment was that a Soviet invasion of a neighbor could not go unanswered, lest the Soviet army soon be standing guard over the oilfields of the Persian Gulf. Any reaction that conveyed the U.S. outrage in practical terms was better than mere handwringing. Nor are the reprisals necessarily over. A boycott of the Olympic Games remains a definite threat, and there are other means of inciting...