Word: lions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lion of Ireland, Llywelyn...
...rate will actually climb as high as 8.5% next year. Economists estimate that a miscalculation of one percentage point in the unemployment rate would throw off the House budget figures by more than $25 billion-a loss of $20 billion in revenues and an automatic increase of $5 bil lion to $7 billion in unemployment bene fits. Conceded New York Republican Congressman Barber Conable, a member of the Budget Committee: "There is a substantial aura of make-believe about our prognostications." After the House vote, the budget battle moved to the Senate, where Ernest Hollings of South Carolina has succeeded...
...active "creative contributor to the process of making a film." Hollywood: The Pioneers offers powerful support for that belief, including a 1928 photo that draws the curtain on an adventurous, fatally innocent era: as a group of bored technicians look on MGM's fabled trademark, Leo the lion, roars into a microphone for the very first time...
...Lion of Ireland, Llywelyn
...River blindness, also called onchocerciasis, is caused by infection from a worm carried by flies, and occurs particularly in West Africa, Guatemala and Mexico. The World Bank, in a project to eradicate the disease in seven African nations within 12 years, has pledged $150 mil lion to spray the flies' breeding waters...