Word: lions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flashy clothes, bow ties, all of which clashed with the strict, official appearance Gromyko thought should be standard for serious men. Gromyko also envied his status in the Academy of Sciences. Fedorenko, like Yakov Malik, who later replaced him as Ambassador, detested Gromyko. But unlike Malik, who was a lion with his subordinates and a mouse with Gromyko, Fedorenko did not fear the minister...
Meanwhile, Columbia lost a shot at first place when Cornell took a 56-51 victory from the Lions Saturday. The Big Red's win, which came just one week after a loss at the hands of the very same Lion squad, marked Cornell's test victory in New York City in 12 years...
...confirmed bachelor who looks a bit like Bert Lahr's Cowardly Lion, McGowan lived in rented apartments for most of his life, but four years ago he bought a house in Georgetown and converted it into a revealing kind of private playland. Pushbuttons control all manner of gadgets: lighting panels on every floor, a laser-disk stereo system that can be turned on by infrared signals from any room. And in the back patio, a Jacuzzi whirlpool bath stands surrounded by fake boulders. McGowan admired the props in the polar bear cage at the National Zoo and ordered some...
...been too stringent and opened up the money-supply spigot. That helped send the prime rate down to 10.75% by late December. In the fourth quarter, growth picked up to an estimated 2.8% pace. Concluded Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige: "This year the economy came in like a lion and is going out like a lamb...
...average, 1984 was more lion than lamb. For the year as a whole, growth amounted to about 5.3%. That was enough to slash the civilian unemployment rate from 8.2% to 7.2%. The number of Americans with jobs rose by nearly 3 million, to 106 million...