Word: pound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then they told him he could leave. Suddenly, he walking the streets, alone, toward the Charles. Hunched, his head began to throb, then pound, then implode. Bismarck, and the rest of them, awaited...
...Unemployment reached a postwar high of 1.5 million (6%) and is still rising. Interest rates soared to a record high of more than 20% to the average borrower. Bankruptcies multiplied as small firms were caught in world recession, 20% pay settlements and an overvalued North Sea-oil-based pound that made exports noncompetitive...
...possible without touching basic necessities. The school committee should even consider increases in Lannon's bare-bones "educationally sound" budget. In a year when the system faces desegregation and is still recovering from a year marred by trouble, cuts in the level of services may turn out to be pound-foolish...
...which extract it from white blood cells separated from donated blood. The output in 1979 was minuscule, 400 mg (.014 oz.) gleaned from 45,000 liters (90,000 pints) of blood. The effort is so painstaking that, according to estimates by scientists at the California Institute of Technology, a pound of pure interferon would cost between $10 billion and $20 billion. That price will certainly decline as large companies enter the field with more efficient production techniques. As one Wall Street analyst predicts, "The market for the stuff is probably big enough for everyone to get a share. If interferon...
...upper-income Scarsdale, seven miles from Purchase, when his diet book was published in January 1979. It quickly caught the fancy of weight-conscious Americans, selling nearly 3 million copies and grossing more than $11 million. The book promised dieters that they would lose an average of a pound a day by adhering to Tarnower's highprotein, low-carbohydrate regime...