Word: loads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their promises to the poor. Family and welfare allowances have gone up; the minimum wage has risen 20.9%. Reduction of the work week from 40 to 39 hours and the addition of a fifth week of paid annual vacation for most workers have not only lightened the work load but are supposed to be spreading available jobs. Unemployment, nevertheless, broke the 2 million mark last winter and has only recently dropped slightly below that figure. Inflation, which at first dipped to 12%, is inching back up to 14%, even though it is falling in many other countries...
Jumbo centerfielder John Guisti led off with a single, left fielder John Andon followed with a double--sending Guisti to third--and then Brown walked Harasimewicz to load the bases...
...town meeting, he heard the newcomer complain that the road had been widened too much. Ever since, the newcomer's road has been the last graded in summer, the last plowed in winter and left absolutely impassable in mud season. The road commissioner promises he will put a load of gravel on that mud - some...
...prodigy of prodigies may be Eugene Volokh, 14, of Los Angeles. A Russian emigre, he earns $480 each week by doing 24 hours of programming for 20th Century-Fox, while carrying a full load of courses as a junior at UCLA. This year Greg Christensen, 18, of Anaheim, Calif., could make $100,000 in royalties from a video game he developed that was bought by Atari. Other youngsters are waiting at the sidelines in hopes of catching up with these young entrepreneurs. Every Tuesday night, Scott Whitfield, 13, and his brother Shawn, 11, appear at the Menlo Park, Calif., public...
...yesterday's opener with Penn, the batsmen took a two-run deficit into the top of the seventh. With two out, Quaker hurler Pete Shutte gave shortstop Brad Bauer a free pass to load the bases, then walked Vinnie Martelli to bring Harvard to within one. But Donnie Allard popped to Shutte, and Billy Doyle fell victim to a 2-1 defeat despite tossing a three-hitter...