Word: pent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jesse, run! Run, Jesse, run.The chants roll toward him, rumbling like a pent-up storm, rising to the rafters and the stained-glass portrait of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. With the practiced rhythms of preacher and pitchman, he launches his sermon on power. "There's a freedom train acoming," he intones. "But you got to be registered to ride." Amen! "Get on board! Get on board!" There is fire in his eyes, a pin in his starched collar, a finger in the air. "We can move from the slave ship to the championship! From the guttermost...
...recession of the past few years has created what analysts describe as an enormous pent-up appetite for vacations abroad. TWA Spokesman David Venz observes, "A vacation in Europe is easily deferred. People who have been working have been salting their money away." Lines have never been so long at U.S. passport offices. Between January and May, Americans picked up 2,021,007 passports, a 26% increase over the same period a year ago. At Manhattan's 630 Fifth Avenue passport office, applicants sometimes stand in line for as long as four hours. Alitalia flights from New York...
...Right's arrogant dogmatism and political backwardness, and his appearance provided a golden opportunity to shout "the Moral Majority is neither" right in the face of the man who founded that New Right lobbying group and gave it its presumptuous name. Snickering and hissing at Falwell released pent-up anger at the Reagan Administration's attacks on gays, women, Blacks, Central America, and the welfare state, making the preacher the fall guy for every conceivable post-1980 depredation...
...same time, the pent-up demand for mobile telephones is about to explode. Prospective suppliers have been queuing up at the Federal Communications Commission to provide a novel service called cellular radio communication. Cellular systems, in which a city is divided into honeycomb-like cells, each with its own transmitter, get much more use out of a single radio frequency than conventional mobile phones. Cellular technology is such an improvement over existing techniques that it allows an almost limitless expansion in the number of mobile phones in use. It also increases their range and usefulness. Licenses have already been awarded...
...improvement in the employment picture could help revive consumer confidence and boost spending. In addition, the 10% income tax cut scheduled for July 1 will raise household buying power. After three years of economic sluggishness, there is pent-up demand for houses, autos, appliances and other big-ticket items. Heller predicted that housing construction would rise by nearly 42% this year, to 1.5 million units, while auto sales would be up 22%, to 9.75 million...