Word: mire
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...poor quarterly reports show that some U.S. corporations have yet to escape from the mire of recession, despite signals that the slump is over. The Government reported last week that its index of leading economic indicators, which seeks to predict future business trends, jumped 2.4% in September, the fourth consecutive monthly increase. Yet interest rates continue to rise like an incoming tide. Major banks last week hiked the rate they charge their best corporate customers another half point to 14.5%. That could easily snuff out any strong economic recovery, and it may mean that business reports for the fourth quarter...
...early this fall to terminate HDNS, to find a way to bring it legally under Harvard's jurisdiction, or to allow an independent student organization to take over the delivery route. Having ironed out some of its early-semester delivery problems, HDNS admittedly could pull itself out of the mire, despite a poor reputation and an outstanding $5000 debt to Cambridge Trust. On the other hand, Epps has not proved that he is willing to keep himself up-to-date about HDNS or to act as its entrepreneur when the service lacks a responsible manager. Clearly, Epps would fulfill...
Your cover [Sept. 22] is a pitiable sight: the industrial giant sinking in the mire of poisonous wastes from the chemicals that made it great...
...there any possible solution to this repressive mire, other than escaping it? Could the situation go on forever? According to one Argentine sociologist who lives in New York City, "Repression's been a tradition in Argentina since colonial times. We had dictatorships 25 years before Peron. People have known nothing else--they've been weaned on lack of liberty and learned to accept...
...could, by lifting his chin, raise his nostrils high enough above the mire to breathe, but it was painful, owing to his sore back-of-neck. He now greatly regretted not having killed Harry...