Word: rammed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...neighborhood. Once in a while, the movie quiets its tone of social soap opera and pulls together a strong sequence: a gang fight, staged with the right kind of rushed clumsiness and dulled, all-directions violence, and a lacerating funeral sequence with a lightning-rod eulogy by a preacher (Ram John Holder...
...bent on moving only slowly to revive the economy, hoping that sluggish growth and rising unemployment will eventually cause the fires of inflation to burn out. Yet if, as generally expected, unemployment edges up from its present 5.2% to near 6% later this year, the Democratic Congress may impatiently ram through a series of expansionary measures that could well bring on even worse inflation. The Administration cannot expect any outpouring of public support. A Harris Poll released last week before the President spoke showed that 83% of those questioned no longer believe that his Administration can effectively manage the economy...
Called the "Ram Song" sonata be cause Brahms borrowed the melody of his Opus 59 Regenlied, the D major so nata emerged a varied, complex work with some diabolical technical demands. But Starker plays the cello as naturally as others speak. From a firm and steady bow a shimmering melodic line un wound, juxtaposed with rich chords. After the performance Starker said, "You'd think Brahms had written it for the cello...
...felt the need to attain nuclear status both to remain competitive with Peking and to enhance its security from outside attack. That status will become markedly real if India decides to perfect its ongoing rocketry program by constructing an effective delivery system. Moreover, said Indian Defense Minister Jagjivan Ram in response to Western criticism, the test opens the way for such peacetime industrial uses of atomic energy as river diversion, mining and prospecting for vitally needed oil and gas reserves...
...before the North Carolina Utilities Commission last October in which Duke President Carl Horn Jr. said that "Duke Power's financial condition is currently among the poorest in the entire industry." Next day 18 miners, some wearing boots and safety lamps, picketed the New York Stock Exchange to ram home the message. The stock issue sold out anyway, but the U.M.W. plans a similar campaign next month to defeat a Duke attempt to sell $100 million worth of bonds...