Word: line
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...order to run the operation as a one-man show, Ludwig has even refused Brazilian tax credits that could have saved him roughly 50% of his own investment. However, since the next stage will cost $650 million to $750 million and perhaps much more, he is seeking to line up credit from American and European financial institutions...
...robes and speaking fluent Arabic. By contrast, Hoagland drifts in and out of stagnant backwaters, a rumpled, skinny fugitive from L.L. Bean whose spoken English is hampered by a bad stutter. He is as puzzling and exotic to his hosts as they are to him, one of a long line of white hunters and note takers whom the wags of Juba on the White Nile call pink spiders. Only this one writes a blue streak...
...moribund in a culture, the metastasis of despair that occurs when a society loses faith in its own future, when its energy wanes and dies. It would probably be more narrowly accurate to use words like corrupt or depraved to describe, say, punk rock, or murder in a gas line, but decadent is more popular because it contains a prophecy. To be decadent is to be not just corrupt, but terminally corrupt. "Decadence" speaks with the iron will of history and the punishment of the Lord. It is an accusation. "Woe to those who are at ease in Zion," wrote...
...politicians then took a studiedly stern look at Chrysler's proposal. After all, barging into the free market system on behalf of a declining concern violated every tenet of what is supposed to be America's survival-of-the-fittest economy. And the politicians seemed to take a hard line on Chrysler, casting aspersions on Chrysler's tax code shenanigans, and substituting them with their own plan. Treasury Secretary G. William Miller said that the government might aid Chrysler with a guaranteed loan of $750 million, but only after the corporation made internal sacrifices and set out a sound plan...
...board of directors of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) is scheduled to vote this morning on an agreement which would give Harvard about $1 million in exchange for contruction necessitated by the extension of the Red Line through Harvard Square...