Word: pounded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brittan, assistant editor of London's Financial Times, pointed out that the recent downturn in the value of the U.S. dollar and the British pound should help ease protectionist pressures both in the U.S. and throughout Western Europe. The U.S. and Britain, whose exports have suffered from overvalued currencies for more than a year, are now expected to be less inclined toward curbing imports. Reason: foreign-made goods will become relatively more expensive, and thus less competitive, in the U.S. and British markets, thereby helping to stimulate sales for domestic manufacturers and reduce demands for protectionist measures...
Half of a 10-oz. Frozen pound cake, thawed (or 6-8 pieces of dining hall cake with the frosting removed...
...news from television has for some time been regarded as both true and alarming. With noble earnestness, Walter Cronkite used to plead that his half-hour script would not fill three-quarters of a single newspaper page and that distortion was "the inevitable result of trying to get ten pounds of news into the one-pound sack we are given each night." Speaking at a du Pont Awards ceremony at Columbia University in February, NBC's Tom Brokaw said that unfortunately many Americans "have come to rely on us as their primary and only source of information...
High-priced military hardware--like the Pershing--makes Reagan Administration pulses pound with enthusiasm. The armsracing Californians who run the Pentagon have ushered in a host of shiny new weapons systems: the B-IB bomber, the MX missile, the M-1 tank, the F-18 fighter, and a whole military-industrial complex--full of other guns, planes, helicopters, ships and missiles. The Administration's emphasis on military technology has dramatically increased the Pentagon's already-bloated procurement budget. From 1981 to 1983, procurement spending rose nearly three times as fast as total defense spending. But because of incompetent management...
Originally a dancer and gymnast the 5'I" girl arrived at Harvard with dreams of rowing crew but was rejected because of her diminutive 78-pound frame. She instead coaxed the women's novice boat, but found the mixture of "cheerleading, coaching and steering" not active enough." Also, she says, "It's very In limiting to have eight people facing you You're got to have a lot of confidence to get through that...