Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just after finishing a six-year term in the Senate, Evans is once again taking a breather from the rough and tumble world of politics. This time, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government is his place of retreat...
...tragedy of Flight 811 was a further setback for Boeing, which in recent weeks had to acknowledge that some of its new planes were rolled out of the factory with faulty -- and potentially dangerous -- electrical wiring. In today's atmosphere of rough competition fostered by airline deregulation, a number of U.S. carriers have been accused of pushing their aging fleets to the limit and disregarding manufacturers' maintenance recommendations...
...Crimson is not yet performing at a playoff level. Harvard had a rough time during its six February road games and was biding time until it returned to Bright for its final regular-season homestand. But Harvard didn't look quite recovered last weekend at Bright...
...period authenticities and relentlessly violent plot practically guarantee Billy Bathgate a sale to the movies. Good luck to all concerned, for the novel's greatest strength resides in its least cinematic feature. Billy's language -- breathy, breakneck, massing phrases into great cumulus sentences that rumble with coming rough weather -- is totally unlike the short, syncopated rhythms of Ragtime. At first, readers may wonder how this young, confessed truant has run across terms like "dissynchronously" or where he picked up the poetic skills to describe a waterfall: "At the very bottom there hovered a perpetually shimmering rainbow as if not water...
...With financial trouble at the federal and state level, I believe that the city has very rough times ahead, and I believe that the management of the city needs to be very united and very stable to do the best we can for our people," Wolf said...