Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...soaring energy costs, many Third World countries have been forced to borrow voraciously from big banks, notably in the U.S. Now, that rising mountain of debt is casting an ominous shadow across the international banking scene. A growing number of monetary experts, bank regulators and economists are concerned about the ability of some less developed countries (LDCS) to pay off. They worry that a series of defaults could severely jolt the banking systems of the U.S. and other major lending countries-and perhaps imperil the Western economies...
Averaging about two minutes a floor, George Willig, 27, climbed steadily up the northeast corner of the great south tower. He moved with a touch of éclat and a forthright manner that clearly indicated he knew what he was doing. An experienced mountain climber, Willig had been planning his adventure for a year. He had punctiliously taken a day of leave from his job as a designer for the Ideal Toy Corp., and was utterly confident that he would make it to the top of his own private Everest...
...task-and to do it practically and economically may well be the most complicated technological venture ever attempted. Says Physicist Gerald Yonas of New Mexico's Sandia Laboratories, a federally supported atomic research facility: "It's the most exciting area today in science. Fusion power is a mountain we have to climb...
Sparked by mountain-man Bill Walton, the tournament MVP, the Blazers held leads as big as 17 points in the first half and 12 points with just six minutes left, then held off the furious Philadelphia rally...
...then he sits in a rocker sandwiched between speakers blaring the hard rock music of the Grateful Dead, absorbing the music and psyching himself up. By game time, the burning look that intimidated opponents for four years at U.C.L.A. is back in his eyes. The towering center they called Mountain Man is ready for the climb...