Word: might
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while one might think that a person who makes his living on fowl might opt for a Thanks-giving roast, Silver says that's not the case...
...This is our year. Everybody's up for it. It's what you might call an occupational hazard," he says...
...payoff can be enormous. As electronics manufacturers have discovered, the laws of economics at the micro level are as different as the laws of physics. A manufacturer might spend a small fortune putting hundreds of moving parts and circuits onto a single silicon chip. But when that chip goes into large-scale production and millions of copies are made, the economies of scale take over, and development costs virtually disappear...
...Unhappily denied such attentions, The People is a rough draft of the novel it might have become. The year is 1870, and Yozip Bloom, a Russian immigrant and itinerant Jewish peddler, roams the Pacific Northwest. He is kidnaped by an Indian tribe that calls itself the People. For reasons not entirely clear, Yozip has been singled out as the spokesman, Yiddish-inflected English and all, who will defend the rights of the People against the perfidious, treaty- breaking whites...
Thatcher plainly wanted to stop speculation that she might resign in the wake of the resignation of Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson...