Word: reset
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past year and a half have not helped farmers as much as urban professionals. The constant battles over GATT and the EEC's agricultural subsidies have been more on behalf of big farming; small producers only feel the benefits of decreased foreign subsidies over several years, when market prices reset themselves...
...took us longer than usual to reset that particular zone," Hawkes said
...train speeding downhill, exceeding a 20-m.p.h. speed limit. Before Keno could slow train, he went through a speeding signal and tripped an emergency brake. The train hissed to a dead stop. All he had to do was get out of the train, get onto the tracks and reset the brake. But Keno was afraid of the dark subway tunnels, the rats and exposed high-voltage lines. For a full 30 minutes he sat panicked as the conductor and Transit Authority supervisors, still not knowing his identity, coached and chided him. Finally a rail inspector arrived and repowered the train...
Never mind that during the 1980s the top 5 percent of American wage earners saw their incomes double as a whole, Michael Eisner has personal rights to exercise. Never mind that the Reagan-Bush years reset the average family's after tax income to 1970s levels, Eisner sees a loophole. Never mind that because of 12 years of Republican rule, the bottom tenth of Americans watched their average income decrease 14.8 percent, because Eisner wants his dough and he wants...
Computer-programmed to reset itself for daylight savings time, the clock is guaranteed to run smoothly for the next 99 years...