Word: looming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...horizon. The Gulf Coast is part desolate and soulless tourist strip, cheap motels and nightclubs where groups like Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts play, and part fishing villages and marsh and swamp. The swamps give way to Lake Pont-chartrain presently, and the Louisiana Superdome starts to loom on the horizon. Beyond the Mississipi and the alluvial silt of the Coast, Houston beckons...
...industry's resurgence is also being speeded by improved technology like the shuttleless loom, which is more flexible in reproducing designs and runs at higher speeds than conventional looms. Textile producers are also turning away from their historical emphasis on volume production, which often resulted in glutted markets and depressed prices, to concentrate on highly salable items that offer greater returns on investment. Finally, the rush of imports that has plagued the industry in the past has slowed, partly because of the 1971 agreement that drastically curbed imports from Japan and the Far East, partly because costs recently have...
...difficult. Writing for a minute market--liberal intellectuals, largely Eastern--he can begin each of his perhaps fifty stories with a literary world presupposed. Marx, Freud, Byron, a Jewish boyhood (familiar to gentile literati from reading Mailer and Roth), and the inertia of the 1950s all loom in the book's background, the author only has to select which allusions to use for each story's point of departure...
Still, the Boss was sufficiently uncertain of his musical future to quit school altogether. He enrolled in Ocean County College, showed up in what is still his standard costume-Fruit of the Loom undershirt, tight jeans, sneakers and leather jacket-and was soon invited round for a chat by one of the guidance staff. As Springsteen tells it, the counselor dropped the big question on him immediately. "You've got trouble at home, right...
...though, the money crunch begins anew: the city will have to come up with more than $3 billion over six months to meet a variety of obligations, including past debt coming due. Unless the Administration begins to recognize the urgency of the matter, the specter of default will then loom larger than ever...