Word: looms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...debate about Coolidge will go on. The verbal sketches in William Allen White's 1938 biography A Puritan in Babylon still loom large in public memory: "Flinty-faced, sugar-cured and hickory-smoked, the wordless Yankee joss sitting cross-legged in the, cosmos"; the world was "running madly extravagant"; Coolidge "stood, blinking at the tidal forces he could not fathom." If Reagan's economics fail, historians may say the same about him. If supply-side succeeds in some fashion, Reagan will not only give himself a boost in history but win a few more years of White House...
...Force ROTC officials agree that a number of factors loom large in their program's rising popularity. They point to the general trend among Americans towards conservatism, and the military's beginning to lose the terrible stigma acquired with the years in Vietnam. The program itself is also more attractive to students than it was ten years ago, they...
...serious defeats loom ahead on Capitol Hill
...Deficits loom, defense decisions wait, diplomacy beckons; welcome back...
...important court dates loom this fall--appeals of the regulatory decisions which cleared the way for the engines. But it appears as if the University's worst financial nightmare is in its closing episodes. The oft-interrupted dream of cost-and energy-efficient steam, chilled water and electricity service for the medical area is becoming more real...