Word: pent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...European customers, while Piaggio says it will sell 60% of its planes in North and South America. By some estimates, fewer than 8,000 corporate aircraft are in use today worldwide, but the industry is coming out of a decade-long slump, and there may be a backlog of pent-up demand...
...kind of like horses beginning a race," senior Lanny Thorndike said. "We're gnawing on the bit. We have a lot of pent-up aggression and we're ready to let loose...
...help but feel angry when you think of the society he died for. You think of the slow death so many face in inner city communities, of people dying from their poverty, drugs, and pent up anger, without any hope that things will get better...
Israeli political leaders are beginning to learn a different lesson, best expressed by Minister of Economics Gad Yaacobi, a Labor Party member: "The true sources of the recent events are the pent-up fury and hatred of 20 years of occupation, the swelling frustration over diplomatic stagnation, and the sense of impotence and hopelessness stemming from this." Added Ezer Weizman, a former Defense Minister and Likud bloc member who recently defected to Labor: "If we do not advance now toward a political solution the situation will only deteriorate rapidly...
...ever since Li shut it down for four days during the global financial crash last October. At a stormy news ! conference held when trading resumed, the contentious Li argued that he had given investors a chance to calm down. But his action had the opposite effect: it created a pent-up pressure to sell. After the exchange reopened, the Hang Seng stock index plunged by 33% in a single...