Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world has changed since the New Deal, of course. Government must now more than ever arbitrate internal conflict and administer scarcity, hardly pleasant tasks. But need Government be so obtuse and at times acrimonious...
Banks' release ended an ordeal that began on a pleasant fall day when the unemployed truck driver took out his aging single-shot shotgun and went hunting. His dog came across the bodies of a 38-year-old high school band leader and a 19-year-old woman who once had been one of his students. Banks went to the road and stopped a motorist, who in turn summoned police. Five weeks later, Banks was locked up. For the trial, Banks' original lawyer, who later was disbarred for shoddy work in other cases, failed to turn up several...
...success of the 1980 harvest is especially pleasant because the year began so poorly when the grain embargo temporarily disrupted commodity markets and drove prices down. The Federal Government was forced to buy up some 16.5 million metric tons of grain to stabilize prices...
...Europe, and Japan would plummet by 13,22, and 25 per cent, respectively. These catastrophes could cause a wholesale shifting of alliances as Western nations pleaded, or fought, for oil-and, the authors claim, could prompt a global war as nations scrambled for diminished oil supplies. Not a pleasant picture...
When the high jump results flashed across the giant electric scoreboard, the Crimson got another pleasant surprise. Veteran jumper Liane Rozzell had broken the old ITT record with a surge of 5 ft., 5 in., and sophomore Karen Gray came in second, tying the old record of 5 ft., 3 in., displaying Harvard's depth in the field events as well as on the track...