Word: present
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Also, the information the press has received from the present administration "really reflects upon the character and style of the man at the top, even down to the press briefings," Stahl said, looking back on her eight years of White House reporting...
...PROBLEM remains to determine just how permissive a Cambridge means test should be. Since, at present, only 29 percent of the controlled units are occupied by tenants who earn less than $19,000 a year, Walsh's proposal that 30 percent of Cambridge's apartments be set aside for the needy, under rent control rules, seems fairly reasonable...
...possible," Whitney recalled. "The office they met in was never designed for large meetings of this sort, with the result that most of the governors were compelled to stand or to sit on tables. As the meeting progressed, panic was raging overhead on the floor . . . The feelings of those present were revealed by their habit of continually lighting cigarettes, taking a puff or two, putting them out and lighting new ones -- a practice which soon made the narrow room blue with smoke." After due deliberation, they decided to let the market run its course. By the end of that Black...
...investors have been nervous. Whatever the precise mix of emotions and events that triggered last week's collapse -- and to establish that mix would require probing into millions of minds around the world -- its root cause was a dim but accurate perception that U.S. prosperity was not sustainable with present policy. And with Congress and the President perpetually wrangling over the most modest proposals to reduce the budget deficit, they could see no sign that policy was about to change...
...present volume (destined, according to its own news releases, to be called RHD-II) is not so comprehensive as the dominant publication in the unabridged category, Webster's Third New International Dictionary (1961), which has more than 450,000 entries and is generally more thorough and dense with examples. But RHD-II is an eminently practical, everyday reference: it is typographically crisp, its definitions are clear and brief (sometimes to the point of spareness), and it offers some features that Webster's lacks, including the dates when words entered the language and pronunciation and etymological guides at the foot...