Word: peg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minute inaugural speech, De la Madrid outlined a ten-point austerity program for "reordering the economy." It included deep cuts in government spending and higher prices for public sector goods. (The next day gasoline prices were doubled.) He promised to peg the peso at a more "realistic" rate of exchange and announced plans to restructure the federal bureaucracy and eliminate waste...
ONLY THE RED BULL and a few other downright evil characters show glimpses of animated genius. Every detail of the red-pink bull steams with uncontrollable evil--especially the transparency of its imposing body. Two peripheral characters--Captain Cully the peg-legged pirate cat and a pile of bones forming a distorted skeleton--momentarily memorize the audience, as doss the terrifying flying beast Harpy, the evil counterpart of the unicorn. Otherwise, a dearth of fluid detail hampers the illusion...
...debate was over two proposals, one that would make honors dependent on an average of every grade a student receives, and another that would determine honors by averaging the student's 24 best grades. Current rules peg honors to two-thirds of a student's non-concentration courses...
...fifth generation of a prosperous family in Independence, Mo., Elizabeth Wallace Truman grew up a blue-eyed, blond-curled tomboy. She could bat a ball as far as any boy in the neighborhood and was better than any at mumblety-peg. She met her future husband when he was six and she was five and he always said he fell in love at that moment. They did not marry until 29 years later, partly because her mother opposed this boy of no "family" and sparse prospects. Engaged just before Harry left for World War I, they wed on his return...
Pollsters have the power to peg a winner before a large part of the electorate has voted. If this information is broadest, studies have shown that supporters of the projected loser will not turn out, hurting those on the ticket whose races have not yet been decided. Ostensibly, had Carter's fate not been prematurely broadcast on national television, more Democrats would have decided to vote between six and eight o'clock Pacific time, probably returning Corman to his seat. But instead, NBC went public and Bobbi Fiedler is now the representative for California's 21st Congressional District...