Word: lough
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...such strategy, for Japanese bankers as well as manufacturers, may be to lose money in the short run in order to gain market share for the future. Some Japanese banks offer loans to U.S. businesses at between 1/8% and 1/4% below the going rate at American banks. Says David Lough, a chief executive with London-based National Westminster Bank: "The Japanese take a very long-term view of markets. They are quite prepared to loss-lead in the early stages." But Japanese bankers shrug off the criticism. Says Hagura: "You always get accused of undercutting when you're expanding...
...book's centerpiece, "Station Island," that is most likely to find its way into anthologies. Set on Ireland's noted isle of pilgrimage in Lough Derg, Donegal, the long poem describes two journeys, one a pilgrimage of prayer, the other a search for self. That quest, and the thoughts it inspires, brings as much pain as enlightenment. In a typical passage, Heaney, who grew up in Northern Ireland, bitterly remembers the Catholic ghetto, and "how quick I was to know my place." In another, he faces the ghost of his cousin Colum, killed in the sectarian violence. "You confused evasion...
...Tuesday's penctal-election will likely be below mental level. Cambridge city connecitos predicted yesterday cecomes of comfortable leads enjoyed by many Demascratic candidates and the to the unusually lough conditions in the Septenther primary...
...keys to success for this lough old-style romance are the two relationships pulling Mayo apart with the strength of plow horses. The son of a drunken sailor, he enlists in the Port Ranter Naval Aviation Office Candidate School to learn to fly jets. There he crashes into Foley, whom I ours Gosset Jr. masterfully molds into a merciless embodiment of martial discipline. There is no heart of gold beneath Foley's taut Black skin: the scorn he displays for his charges on the first day of their 13-week baste training stint changes only to bitter, unstated resentment...
...that goes with it. But after his squad beat Army 9-0 late in December, Harvard coach Dave Fish felt confident enough to claim that after looking up at Princeton all season. "We can now look them eye-to-eye." Army coach Paul Assaiante echoed Fish: "Princeton's pretty lough, but on racket skills, Harvard's probably better...