Word: rerun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vermeil has made sure his team will be ready for the Raiders. When the Eagles leave Philadelphia this week for New Orleans, Vermeil will set up a rerun of training camp. Super Bowl hoopla leaves him unimpressed: "I don't give a damn for parties, ceremonies, celebrations. To me, there's only one way to enjoy a football game, gentlemen, and that...
...time it seemed to have all the makings of a rerun of last summer's strike drama. Threatening a citywide general strike, workers in Warsaw put up posters and donned red-and-white armbands. Many newsstands stopped selling government newspapers and displayed small Polish flags, a symbol of union protest. At the Ursus tractor factory, flash point of the 1976 food riots, more than 600 assembled workers cheered as union organizers from other Warsaw plants pledged to shut down their enterprises. The battle cry was contained in a poem read by one union leader: "It's better...
Inflation is sure to rise above its present 12.7% annual rate over the next few months; some economists even foresee a rerun of the price explosion of last spring, when the rate briefly hit 18%. One of the villains will be food prices; they may rise by as much as 2% a month this winter because of a poor harvest and overseas demand. At the same time, the unemployment level, now 7.6%, will creep up as rising interest rates slow down homebuilding and other industries. As it is, the economy is very sluggish. New home sales in September dropped...
This race could be a rerun of the sixties, with a Goldwater-type hawk facing off again a traditional dove. The third candidate--incumbent Sen. Jacob Javits (R-N.Y.)--accuses both of extremism, attempting to straddle the middle. He may find out--too late--that by splitting the liberal vote, he has contributed to the election of an ultraconservative...
...otherwise tedious film-and stole the spotlight from Travolta. Joyce Selznick found Kurt Russell, who, after losing 20 lbs. and dying his hair black, played the great pelvis in ABC's Elvis. When Elvis was shown in February 1979, it drew higher ratings than CBS's rerun of Gone With the Wind and NBC's showing of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest...