Word: looming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...half closed with the teams knotted at 42, but the fouls began to loom larger. Playing with three fouls in the second half, Mannix kept up the offensive pressure, finishing the game tied with Fleming at a team-high 18 points...
Surrounded by talented actors, blessed with a master cinematographer and given a fascinating story, The Judge and The Assassination seems to have all the makings of an outstanding film. Unfortunately, Tavernier loses his nerve when the real dimensions of the psychological theme loom before him. Rummaging through the props closet of King of Hearts and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Tavernier merely dusts off a confusing collection of cliches. Most of the film has an aura of impenetrable mystery overlaid with a veneer of hastily added political significance. The whole production reeks of a talented artist lost...
...intelligence analysts and elected officials agreed so unanimously that a few months will be critically important to the U.S. From Jimmy Carter right on down, there is the feeling that by the end of 1979 events will force many decisions out of the current confusion, forms will begin to loom in the gray mists that now cloud the horizon...
...practice, this policy means a dedication to high interest rates, even as the clouds of a recession loom. Said Volcker last week: "I don't think recessions in and of themselves are ever a great thing, but I don't think you just inflate yourself out of a recession either." Twice this spring, at Federal Reserve System policy meetings, Volcker voted in the minority, against Chairman Miller, in favor of raising interest rates. By appointing him, Carter appears to be giving a sign that he will not dilute his anti-inflationary policies in order to stop an election...
Financial problems also loom, especially for the developing nations. They have already run up some $220 billion in debts since oil prices began climbing almost six years ago, and the latest rises could add some $6 billion more to the burden by year's end. Fears are growing of defaults that would shake the private Western banks that have done much of the lending. Turkey, Sudan, Bolivia, Zaire, Zambia, Jamaica and other countries are in trouble...