Word: propell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, Economist Henry Kaufman of the New York investment banking firm of Salomon Brothers, whose pessimistic yearlong predictions of ever higher rates have proved unnervingly accurate, delivered yet another gloomy forecast. He warned a group of corporate financial officers in New York that Government borrowing will propel the cost of money to new and higher peaks in the next six months or so. Said he: "A noose is now tightening around the credit markets...
...Netherlands. Having built Rotterdam's containership terminal into a key operation of the world's biggest and busiest deepwater port, Swarttouw took command three years ago of Holland's weak and floundering Fokker aircraft company and promptly set about developing a strategy to propel it into the front ranks of the world's airframe manufacturers...
...really great think is that Harvard softball is no longer taken as a joke. Even as a club-sport we were out there to play and excel, as ourselves, as athletes; but most important as a team. We did that; all the varsity status does is propel our position to another level...
...just as quick to hand out compliments as the friendly barbs and banter thrown around the locker room. "My job as co-captain is to keep Betty under control--no really Betty and I tend to propel one another. She is an ideal person for the job; she gets the work done, isn't flashy, exudes pride and leadership and inspires...
People don't propel bullets-guns...