Word: mounting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last 57 minutes of the game seemed a mere formality, as Bowdoin never threatened to mount a comeback. Harvard kept the visitors hemmed deep in their own half, peppering Brown with 24 shots in the game, while Harvard's Billy Blood faced only...
...would also have announced some major curtailments of federal subsidy programs for credit, such as programs to subsidize mortgages and student loans." He predicts that the chairman will stick to his stern policy: "Volcker is a tough guy, although pressures on him to soften his position are likely to mount...
...required an immediate resolution. Israeli mobilization would take at least 48 hours. And Israel could not afford not to mobilize because it could not permit a Syrian victory, whatever our reaction. Thus we had a breathing space-if the King could hold on-during which pressures on Syria would mount, perhaps to the point where the crisis resolved itself...
Volcker promptly returned to Washington to draft plans for what could be the second massive dollar-rescue program the U.S. has had to mount in eleven months. Among the steps under discussion...
...male cheerleaders don't get to dance. While the "girls" do the dance routines, the "men stand behind the girls and scream the cheers" through megaphones, Coutu says. At the end of a routine, the men get down on all fours to form the bottom of "the mount...