Word: path
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...company's planes, the firm began to right itself. Productivity, which was slumping in the rest of the economy, rose spectacularly. In 1969 it took 25,000 Boeing workers to turn out seven 747s per month; today it takes 11,000. Sales and income started on a vertical path that has not yet ended. Last year's earnings of $505 million more than doubled 1977's already impressive $180 million...
...more scores he had to settle. He was some how antagonizing the entire world merely by trying to defend himself." His beloved daughter Elaine comes home from college, apparently expelled because of thievery. Earl is shocked and saddened by her alleged kleptomania: "It is certainly an obstacle in her path to achievement." Elaine, for her part, seems to adore Harry and Ramona and to blame Earl for the lethal atmosphere about the house...
...nation where papers are regularly closed down and all other forms of media are government owned, Yoon and newspapermen like him tread a continual tightrope between their desire to maintain journalistic integrity and their need to avoid government wrath. It is a path which at times becomes exceedingly risky...
...humorless in a crazy world, aiming with violent integrity to keep Jesus Christ from controlling his life but simultaneously embracing the guidance--positive or negative--that Jesus offers him. It is a deeply religious story, wryly tragic and depressingly comic as Haze unsuccessfully probes for the path to eternal damnation...
Rescue workers and others in the path of the cloud reported breathing difficulty and skin irritation. Medical officials said prolonged contact with the gas might cause liver, kidney and lung damage...