Word: mell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jefferson, Martin said, was greatly influenced by the "Jean-Jacques Rousseau noble savage school of etiquette" and tried to apply it to the White House protocol by stripping all foreign visitors, even noblemen, of rank. This "pell mell" effort to make all men equal only "offended everyone equally" and had to be abandoned during President Madison's term, she added...
...final collapse seem an inevitable part of the effort. Hockey Commentator Al Michaels could probably inject excitement into a pinochle game, although he shared in ABC's unrealistic buildup of the young, inexperienced U.S. team. As a taped image showed U.S. Downhill Skier Bill Johnson during a pell-mell training run, he explained each turn of the course and keyed viewers to the danger spots. ABC made sparing and mostly sensible use of its 74 cameras and state-of-the-art electronic whizbangery. Perhaps the best of its effusive yet informative pretaped features followed U.S. Luge Team Alternate Paul...
...presidential campaign of 1981, François Mitterrand sharply criticized that pell-mell pace, partly because a sluggish economy had dampened demand for electricity...
After spending 1982 in the doldrums, the economies of the nations bordering the Pacific are again becoming dynamos. In South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore, where factories are churning out exports at a pell-mell pace, economic growth has reached annual rates in the 6% to 9% range, up from 4% to 7% a year ago. Japan is gliding along at a more modest 3.4% rate, but its government has a plan to spur domestic demand. Australia is bouncing back from its worst recession in three decades...
...from June. Otto Eckstein, a Harvard economics professor, predicts that the housing slowdown will help reduce G.N.P. growth in the fourth quarter to a 5% annual rate. For an economy in which inflation remains a constant threat, that may be a better cruising speed than the current pell-mell pace...