Word: reached
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been a Harlem preacher so possessed by anger that he regularly beat his children. "His father's arm, rising and falling, might make him cry," Jimmy wrote in the autobiographical Mountain, "yet his father could never be entirely the victor, for John cherished something that his father could not reach. It was his hatred and his intelligence that Johnny cherished, the one feeding the other." Jimmy had become a preacher too, when he was 14, and that was to color everything he wrote...
...forced America to borrow from abroad to meet its financing needs. Says Investment Banker Peter Peterson, a former Commerce Secretary: "Correcting the current imbalance assumes that America can embark on an enormous shift from consumption to savings. I hope we don't have to have a national crisis to reach a national consensus...
...According to the so-called life-cycle theory of savings behavior, people tend to do their heaviest borrowing and spending from their mid-20s to mid-40s. Then, after their children are grown, they start saving for retirement. Many economists predict that when a huge number of baby boomers reach middle age in the 1990s, the level of U.S. saving will improve...
...churches were juxtaposed with discordantly cheap, gray cement-and-glass office boxes and grim "purpose-built" public housing that sprouted in craters left by German V-bombs. Squares and courtyards were bulldozed flat. Planners who felt that London was too dense and dark decided that new buildings should reach up high in search of light. They rose, in fact, to the 52-story, 600-ft. level of the NatWest Tower, dwarfing the 365-ft.-high St. Paul's dome. According to Gavin Stamp, architecture critic of the London Daily Telegraph, "Wren's skyline was lost, not owing to any conscious...
Ames said the union has been trying to reach a contract agreement with the city for six months. He added that the police will continue to operate under their old contract until the city makes them an offer which they feel compares with the salaries of police in neighboring communities...