Word: lull
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After a two-month lull in the anti-guerrilla war, the operation clearly demonstrated the government's new military power. But in San Salvador, the moderate junta, led by President José Napoleón Duarte, was having new and serious problems. Right-wing businessmen, long attacked by Duarte as the greatest threat to the junta, were grasping for a share of power in the beleaguered country. Said the President: "The private sector is in its final offensive...
After Du Pont's new offer, an uneasy and temporary lull settled over the competition. Explained a top financial adviser to Seagram's Bronfman: "We're just going to sit back for a while and see what happens." But then, after three days of waiting, Mobil moved. It offered $7.7 billion, or $90 per share. The other bidders immediately returned to their calculators to plot their next ploys...
...know how to breathe--it's one of the great cries of noble defeat, like Dylan's "Sarah" or "Wild Horses." One of those songs. Only more. There's something undeniable about the civil war, and the couple just stands there. When the song's over there's a lull before Elvis goes into "Blue Suede Shoes." The man's been dead for years, but the wife smiles. She starts talking about the Rambler he used to come pick her up with when she was his sweetheart. Before they got stuck here. Before the tobacco growing got so ridiculous that...
Putnam's statements drew fire from undergraduates who charged Putnam and the Corporation with attempting to take advantage of a temporary lull in student activism in order to retreat from the sole concession they had made in April 1978, when 3000-plus protestors demanded complete divestitutre...
...moderate food price increases in the months ahead. Finally, a stronger U.S. dollar will make the costs of imported goods lower and keep pressure on domestic companies to hold down their prices. Walter Heller, President Kennedy's chief economic adviser, concludes that the U.S. is "virtually guaranteed a lull in inflation for most of the year...