Word: pound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...carry a 285-pound boulder back home, where it will serve as a stunningly original coffee table...
...worth continued to climb. As Poland smoldered, the Middle East flared and the French voted in a Socialist government, jittery money traders and investors looked to the U.S. as a bastion of political stability. The dollar in recent weeks has reached a four-year high against the pound, a five-year peak against the mark and postwar records against the French franc and Italian lira...
...Pound Marriage...
This is the way much of The Water-Method Man (1972) and The 158-Pound Marriage (1974) were composed. The latter is a bleak tale about the complications of spouse swapping. Between teaching at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass., and stints at the Writers' Workshop in Iowa, Irving typed away in a small shed, the same one that overlooks the pool. There was no pool then, and the future did not seem to promise one. He now works mainly in a study above the kitchen. Weather permitting, one of his three typewriters can be found...
Almost unanimously, certainly wishfully, the striking controllers predict that the Administration's plans to replace them will not work. Contended Controller Dick Holzhauer at an Oakland, Calif., radar center: "If we hang together, I know they can't run the system without us. They're going to want their pound of flesh, but they'll settle." Asked Controller Roger Hicks at Houston Intercontinental Airport: "Where are they going to get 13,000 controllers and train them before the economy sinks? The reality is, we are it. They have to deal with...