Word: pound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million Americans, stricken by such cravings as the Big Mac attack and the Whopper whim, happily surrender to the artery-clogging, waist-expanding pleasures of fast food. But for diet-conscious consumers in particular, a megaburger binge provokes guilt feelings. Reason: the grab-a-bite meal of a quarter-pound cheeseburger, French fries and 16-oz. cola typically contains 1,070 calories. Since an average 170-lb. officeworker must consume fewer than 2,900 calories a day in order to lose weight, a trip to the burger stand does not leave much room for breakfast and dinner...
Wood won his medal at Dursburg in a boat fitted with a sliding rigger, which means that the rower sits in a fixed seat and the our assembly moves back and forth. From the standpoint of physics, it means a faster boat, because instead of a 190-pound oarsman moving back and forth, a 30-pound set of oars is moving back and forth...
Since 1980 the dollar's surge has been all but relentless. Its value has increased 105% in relation to the French franc, 53% against the West German mark and 50% against the British pound. Now America's currency is about 25% too strong for its own good, according to such experts as C. Fred Bergsten, director of the Institute for International Economics in Washington, and Otto Eckstein, chairman of Massachusetts-based Data Resources...
...POUND Rapallo, Italy...
Last week the German planes came over in waves, blasting the houses from their foundations with heavy bombs, loosing showers of glittering two-pound aluminum incendiary bombs to turn the "Holy City" to a furnace. Skimming the roof tops, fighting planes followed with all machine guns popping, harrying terrified peasants through the fields, sending them sprawling in their own blood. Over 800 men, women and children were killed. The munitions factory and barracks, untouched, were later seized by advancing Rightist infantry. Said Catholic Canon Alberto Onoindia of Valladolid Cathedral: "I saw the bombing and burning of Guernica...