Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unfavorable recommendation given by thecommittee this year shows that this was not justthe usual rubber stamp approval," Flaherty said...
...with a top-hatted "squire straight out of Fielding" near the Ohio River, which reminds him of "Cliveden's Thames." Adam, meanwhile, is rolling through the grasslands of Wyoming, sporting new shades, listening to Van Morrison on the stereo system of his beloved Catalina and exulting that in his "rubber-cushioned automobility I feel closer to America than in any amount of digging around for the fact and the detail...
...author herself floated in and out of relationships and jobs until deciding to become a writer, throughout the book struggling to reconcile what Radcliffe taught her and what it did not. And the last character, the neurotic, rich, tennis star-femme fatale, ran a rubber hose from her car's exhaust pipe to its interior and left the engine running...
...protest organizer, Peter Zuber, said 18 people were hurt when Swiss police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse thousands of protesters who broke away from the official march route in Bern. Demonstrators smashed bank windows, tossed firecrackers in the air and damaged a fence around a construction site, he said...
Many of those changes either have been made or are under way. A program of tariff cuts and import liberalization has begun for a broad range of goods, including machinery, rubber tires and textiles. Rafael Alunan, a strongly nationalist local manufacturer of synthetic fibers, decries such moves as a "form of economic slavery, a way to keep us poor." Nonetheless, by April 1988, 90% of the country's imports should be free of quotas...