Word: lulled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point in the uproar that led to his withdrawal from the 1988 presidential campaign had Gary Hart given way to contrition and remorse, as he did during last week's lull after the storm. "I take full responsibility for what I did and the big mistakes I made," he said. Although Hart had quit the race "angry and defiant" over headlines about the weekend he spent with Miami Model Donna Rice, he was now less willing to shift the blame: "The news media made mistakes, but it was wrong of me to make it seem like it was all their...
After lapsing into its characteristic first-half lull, in which Harvard fell behind by as many as 12 points, the cagers came storming back in the closing minutes before the intermission...
...There has been a lull in the seriousness of faculty appointing minority members," Edley says. Harvard, he believes, "is doing OK after several years of unsatisfactory performance...
Like residents of some bombarded city taking advantage of a lull in the shelling, Wall Streeters scrambled from underneath their desks last week and tried to get their morale and finances in shape. Stunned by the Ivan Boesky insider-trading disclosures of Nov. 14 and expecting more to come, investors pulled their money out of takeover-target stocks and instead poured their cash into stabler, less controversial shares. Nevertheless, takeover artists got back some of their nerve and launched a flurry of new merger bids. All the while, angry accusations flew back and forth as the players in the widening...
...feel insecure. Gorbachev's statements and his apparent desire for a second summit and an arms-control agreement may suggest a recognition on his part that such a policy is no longer practical in the nuclear era. Or his reassuring words could merely be part of another campaign to lull the West into complacency...