Word: overhangs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More important, the Soviet Union has a glut of cash, a so-called monetary overhang, which has ballooned under Mikhail Gorbachev because the Soviet government has run increasingly large budget deficits to maintain social peace by subsidizing prices for essential goods and services. The government prints more money to cover the gap, which in a free-market economy would increase inflation. But under the severe price controls of a command economy, the money has no place to go but under the mattress. Jan Vanous, research director of PlanEcon, a Washington-based consulting firm, estimates that...
What looked like two '60s leftovers huddled beneath an overhang of the Centrum, trying to escape the cold drizzle. Bearded and bedraggled, they each held small flowered signs which read, "I need one ticket." They joked with each other, and didn't seem the slightest bit worried abuot getting in. At a Grateful Dead concert, things just seem to work themselves out. Later on, I saw both of them inside...
Following the collapse of a granite slab from the overhang outside Pusey Library last spring, the Facilities Maintenance Department is conducting an extensive overhaul of the structure to ensure its safety...
Twenty-seven years of Harvard Square history came to an end last Friday when Hurricane Gloria knocked the Harvard Coop's large red neon sign from its resting place atop the Coop and Harvard Trust overhang...
...unbelayed by safety ropes, Bachar flows up pitches graded 5.8 or better. Gym workouts have given him steely arm and finger strength, but superb technique and unshakable concentration are his most powerful adhesives. He may work out a sequence of ten or so moves to take him up an overhang hundreds of feet in the air, then discover that the route cannot be forced any farther. Without delay, before his muscles begin to tire and shake, he must then perform the ten-move ballet perfectly in reverse order. "You can't forget the fact that you're right...