Word: midstream
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Moreover, under the current set-up neither the panelists nor the other candidate can stop his opponent in midstream and point out that what he just said was factually incorrect. As a result, Bush was able to duck a tough question asking which weapons systems he opposed by naming a few which the Pentagon has already scrapped. Theoretically, Dukakis could have done so on his own time, but it would have taken 10-15 seconds off the minute he had to tell us how he would make health care and housing affordable...
...never wanted to take over another man's job in midstream, but the chance is here now," Morgan said...
...Well, that made sense to the frog so he said, 'get on,' and started ferry him across and in midstream the scoprion stung him," the president said...
...adding an extra week to the dam's annual 21-day maintenance period, when water flow is sharply reduced. The results downstream were dramatic: parts of the Nile's muddy bottom in Cairo were exposed for the first time, and tourist boats cruising between Aswan and Luxor suddenly confronted midstream sandbars, making passage impossible...
...sharply raises business taxes. Many companies are crying for relief, and Packwood believes that some have a case. Businesses would be "unfairly disadvantaged," he explains, if they had planned long- term projects on the basis of present tax law and were to lose benefits while those projects are in midstream. The makers of commercial communications satellites, for example, are hardly to blame for the U.S. space disasters that have prevented them from getting the satellites launched. Some have been exempted from a provision ending investment tax credits on equipment that is not "placed in service" by a specific date...