Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quick rundown of the situation lends itself to pessimism. Brazil has a foreign debt of about $70 billion and an inflation rate approaching 100 percent. Colombia and Costa Rica are barely surviving the sharp drop in world coffee prices, their principal export. And Honduras has the distinction of being the second poorest Latin American nation after Haiti...
...move has stymied reform so far Liberals like to call Social Security the "third rail" of politics, because to touch it is to die. When Reagan asked for a lame-duck session of Congress to consider the Social Security problem, for example. Tip O'Neill and Ted Kennedy scored quick points by accusing Reagan of a "secret plan" to cripple Social Security...
Coach Bill Cleary agreed "In the third period, there was some over-aggressiveness on his part--he's so quick, you know--but that's okay," Cleary said "I thought he played well. It was a tough game to play, going for such a long time without seeing the puck...
That tradition, he says, is one of "team spirit and team experience," and he is quick to emphasize the group aspect of cross country running. There are no intra-team rivalries, which can be "crippling," he says, and the runners not only work out together but are friends in their off-hours as well...
Taking the inquires--which friends were quick to tell him about--as a sign that he was still in the running. Hoffman held his breath until the call finally came. With the phone call came the move to Houston...