Word: pent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...during a credit crunch when mortgage rates reached a then phenomenal 6.5% after hovering for years at around 5%. Even in today's market, experts are not about to dismiss the U.S. housing industry. High interest rates have made the market stagnant, but they have also created pent-up demand among the baby-boom generation, who are now in their 30s. New housing is currently being built at less than half the 2 million-a-year rate needed just to keep up with those potential buyers. Robert Sheehan, director of economic research for the National Association of Home Builders...
...paralyzed for life. "The sheer joy of waking up, of being alive, overwhelmed any possible sorrow," he says. It was only after he was brought home to New York, trussed in a Stryker frame like a roasting turkey, and eventually transferred to a Veterans Administration hospital, that his long-pent-up emotions overcame...
...entire season of pent-up frustrations, of goals that should have been scored, of games that should have been won, suddenly poured out on the field during the last three minutes of the last game of the season for the Harvard men's lacrosse team, as the laxmen nailed powerful Adelphi College, 19-18, at the Business School field...
Last night Northeastern came out hungry, ready to burst with pent-up frustration over the B.U. loss and their unsuccessful defense of the Beanpot trophy. Neither team suffered from tournament jitters as the contest opened with end-to-end action immediately after the opening faceoff...
Wheeler and her tutor, who was acting as her lawyer, were guided through several locked doors before entering the pent-house board room of CRR. The proceedings that followed, she says, "confirmed what everybody else had been saying about CRR--that it was a kangaroo court." She sat before a panel of committee members, the table between them covered with photographs...