Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...amazing thing about Pin is that she is at a higher level in every area that it takes to be a great soccer player," Coach Tim Wheaton says. "What makes her exceptional is that where most players stand out in one facet of the game, she is superior to the average player in attributes allaround: speed, skill, endurance, and knowledge of the game...
...into words--what it means to you. The season is so short--that's the worst thing. You're always thinking, 'I can't wait' for this or that, and then, suddenly it's over. What other time do you have an opportunity to play such a level of soccer? It just won't happen anymore," Pinezich says...
...usual, there were dark portents. On Sept. 5, 1929, just two days after the New York stock market reached its highest level in history, an eccentric statistician named Roger Babson warned the National Business Conference that "sooner or later a crash is coming, and it may be terrific." The market responded nervously, with the New York Times's 25 leading industrial stocks taking a 10-point dip, then recovering. The Times fretted about the "idea of an utterly disastrous and paralyzing crash...
...about ways to limit Reagan's cherished Strategic Defense Initiative program, he would prefer to pass up Thanksgiving at the ranch. Barely a year after he had done much the same in Reykjavik, Gorbachev pulled off a bait-and-switch scheme at Reagan's expense, luring him into high- level, high-visibility diplomacy only to shock and infuriate the Administration at the last minute by holding summitry hostage to American concessions on Star Wars...
...really need them. The number of senior citizens, for example, has grown significantly in recent years, but the group's poverty rate is edging downward (from 13.9% in 1978 to 12.4% last year). One type of means test would cut off benefits for recipients above a certain income level. "There's a big distinction between entitlements for poor people and entitlements for everybody," says Ruben Mettler, chairman of TRW. Another suggested method to get entitlement costs under control would be to reduce the cost-of-living adjustment from 100% of the consumer price index...