Word: patch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quest for fulfillment usually begins with donations to a few selected charities pledging aid to assorted human and animal unfortunates. These donations provide a quick patch for bothersome guilt and ailing self-esteem, especially when the hordes of monogrammed recognition plaques start rolling in. Unfortunately, richies can line the mansion walls with only so many plaques before they are considered gauche. Then depression usually resumes...
...severely restricting real estate shelters, tax reform has drained that important source of money for the industry. In troubled markets, such as the farm belt and the oil patch, the changes have added to the pressure on shaky developers. Two weeks ago Dallas-based Vantage Companies, the seventh largest U.S. developer, notified its creditors of plans to delay some loan payments and restructure as much as $1 billion in debts. Last week Austin-based Nash Phillips Copus, the seventh largest U.S. builder of single-family homes, put itself into Chapter 11 proceedings...
...good offense. He tweaked Shultz by alluding to Iranscam and the Tower report, saying, "By engaging in politics and by running the government, one has to meet with some troubles and difficulties. We have also had a similar case." Shultz insisted that Reagan had smoothed his "rough patch" by "dealing with it swiftly...
...bright spot that had not appeared in older pictures. Stepping out into the clear mountain air of the Chilean coastal range, the University of Toronto scientist reverted to a technique now used only rarely by professional stargazers: he looked up at the sky. There, in the fuzzy patch of light known as the Large Magellanic Cloud, was the spot. Says Shelton: "For more than three hours, I tried several logical explanations. It took me a long time to actually accept that what I had just seen was a supernova...
...minitrend. You publicize your minitrend in the industry press, and more people start buying. Time magazine hears about it and puts in on the front cover, and bang, housewives are duking it out in the aisles to get your product. Net result: Cabbage Patch Dolls...