Word: pruned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...confidence has been so shattered by its recent political turbulence that many citizens seem quite content to postpone elections indefinitely. Their fears have been fanned by the ominous reappearance of the island's most distinguished and distrusted politician, Sir Eric Gairy, 61. Grenada's first post-independence Prune Minister, Gairy ruled the island from 1974 until the bloodless coup staged by Maurice Bishop and his Marxist-oriented New Jewel Movement five years later. During that time, Sir Eric won dubious international fame by claiming that he had been divinely chosen and compounded it by urging the United Nations...
Even the would-be "evil prune" left the sale satisfied, said Johnson. "He couldn't find a piece of material large enough. so he found some sparkling silver material and decided to be a giant chocolate kiss with legs," she explained...
Piru's plaint is one heard increasingly often as large banks prune their sprawling networks of branches in order to reduce expenses. This year San Francisco's Wells Fargo Bank may close up to 29 of its 387 offices. New York City's Chase Manhattan Bank, which once had 220 branches...
Most Polish workers would be happy to have two weeks off in the prune holiday month of August, but not Electrician Lech Walesa. When officials at the Gdansk shipyard turned down a request from the former Solidarity trade-union leader for vacation in July or September and offered him August instead, Walesa decided to play hooky. Accompanied by his wife Danuta and three of their seven children, he climbed into the family's white Volkswagen minibus and set off for Sokolow Podlaski, a small town 55 miles from Warsaw, to go fishing. He claimed that his holiday request...
...Prune Minister Bob Hawke, who inherited a multitude of economic woes upon taking office earlier this month, has so far offered no solutions except for a $435,000 short-term trial of cloud seeding. Yet the drought's consequences are seeping into every pore of his nation's welfare. Some areas are suffering 40% unemployment. One estimate predicts that the total loss to the nation may amount to $7.5 billion. Australia, which relies on agriculture for half its export earnings, may also find it difficult to regain the markets it is steadily losing. Lamented the national daily...