Word: runaways
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TIME's board expects that the trade deficit will at least halt its runaway growth and possibly retreat a bit by the end of 1986. The deficit hit a record $148.5 billion during 1985, largely because an overly strong dollar made foreign goods cheap in the U.S. and American exports too expensive in other countries. But last September finance ministers and central bankers of the U.S. and four other industrial powers--Japan, France, Great Britain and West Germany--launched a successful effort to push down the dollar. It has declined by about 12% since then, first at a gradual pace...
...poor Terry is given a rather confused character make-up: she tells Hector that her father is a decorated Army flier but spins tales of her parents' opening for Frank Sinatra in Vegas for the erstwhile Jack. No explanation of these inconsistencies is ever provided. She's clearly a runaway, but from whom or what is unclear. In a rather impassioned speech to Jack, on whom she's predictably developed a school-girl crush, she whines that he has "options," albeit unused ones for the time being, but options none the less, while he must realize that she has none...
...Cantabs--aided by violations and poor hitting by Springfield, as well as a couple of ferocious spikes by Jin Park--scored nine straight points to turn a close 3-2 game into a 12-2 runaway...
...variety of reasons, Crimson thinclads didn't perform as expected and the one- or two-point meet became a Dartmouth runaway...
Like a dent on a vintage car that was once inmint condition, that loss diminished the beauty ofa runaway victory at Easterns, an almost perfectdual meet season, and a streak of Ivy titles...