Word: outlandish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Certainly, Thatcherism is a bitter pill to swallow for liberals in the U.K., but at this point there is nothing else on the table. The currently obsolete Labor Party, which has flirted with socialism and communism, finally received the as from an English public fed up with outlandish proposals about quitting the Common Market, nationalizing many prime industries and scrapping the country's military defenses...
...treaties. If you have to behave like the Soviets to compete with the Soviets, you've squandered the one area of competition where we are clearly ahead." To suggest that the Reagan Administration, whatever its faults, is behaving "like the Soviets" must strike even-handed observers as outlandish...
...Cornell University, an outlandish crew of more than 1850 costumed celebrants competed in the annual Phi Phi 500 a local fraternity's combination of party and charity walk-a-thon. The 1.1 mile course looped through the center of Ithaca starting at and returning to the fraternity's house...
...automobile business, lacocca reflected not long ago: "I don't know what the hell I rushed for. It's a long race. I was trying to sprint all the time. Maybe if I had to do it again I'd slow down a little." The thought is so outlandish that not even Lee lacocca can sell...
...wanted to show students that it's okay to be crazy, occasionally to do some outlandish thing and not always go strictly by the book. If you can't be idealistic when you're young and in college, when the hell can you be? It only gets harder and harder," the protesters said. The Emory Wheel, February...