Word: mud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the savings rate has stayed high, indicating continued doubts among consumers, whose spending is necessary to produce a sharp rebound in business. Said Economist Joseph Pechman, a member of TIME'S board: "Except for auto sales and residential construction, this economy is still stuck in the mud...
...French Connection is a knockout police thriller with so much jarring excitement that it almost calls for comic-book expletives. POW!, ZOWIE! The film has all the depth of a mud puddle, but Director William Friedkin (The Night They Raided Minsky's) sets such a frantic pace that there is hardly a chance to notice, much less care. The connection is a French businessman (Fernando Rey) who arrives in New York City with a multimillion-dollar shipment of high-grade heroin stashed underneath a car door. By dumb luck, a couple of tough narcs get onto the deal...
James Bond would have been mortified by the scene. At London's Tilbury Docks one afternoon last week, three mud-spattered school buses squealed to a halt and disgorged 200 Russians, including 70 of the 105 Soviet officials named as spies by the British government and ordered to leave the country (15 were out of Britain when the expulsion orders came, and 20 have since left by other means). It was hardly a classy exit. For two hours in the autumn fog, glum parents and children clutching Teddy bears waited on the Thames pier while the creaking, 35-year...
...sees only mud, the other the stars...
Last year's squad finished the season with an 8-1 mark, the only loss coming at the hands of Brown's freshmen in a mud bowl in Providence...