Word: rushed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...higher prices will be a titanic task. The American consumer has developed the attitude of "buy now before it's higher," as new figures showed again last week. Consumer installment debt exploded by a record $4.5 billion during September to a total of $303.9 billion. The lemming-like rush of consumers into debt could force the Federal Reserve to push interest rates still higher or perhaps to begin limiting the amount of credit available...
...tactics demand an eagle's vision -and a lion's courage, to wait for the open man while defenders thunder in for the kill. Coryell says of Fouts: "Dan has great peripheral vision." Adds Offensive Coordinator Joe Gibbs. "He's completely oblivious to the rush. He stands there with composure and concentration, with all those guys in front of him hittin' and gruntin...
Today, the gym is not open at all. Although the delay of the opening because of construction flaws may take up to a week or more, once the doors open the non-Quad residents will not make a mad rush to play squash, racquetball or handball. Instead they'll be out for a new game called "make a friend at the Quad...
After the shootings, it is alleged, Chung was called into the dining room. Kim proposed that they rush to another KCIA office in Namsan, on the edge of Seoul's old city, and immediately take steps to seize all radio and television stations. But at the sight of the President's body, Chung became upset. Instead, he persuaded Kim to go to the defense ministry, while Chief of Staff Kim Kae Won rushed Park to a nearby hospital. When the alleged assassin and the general arrived at Chung's office shortly after 8 p.m., Defense Minister...
...President's broadside was recklessly inaccurate, and embarrassed White House staffers had to rush to issue "clarifications," The trillion dollars, a White House aide explained, is actually the amount of additional oil revenues-not profits-that the companies will receive as a result of decontrol of domestic crude oil prices over the next ten years. What Carter meant to say, the aide insisted, was that the Senate version of the windfall tax bill will leave the industry with $130 billion more in profits from decontrol than the House measure. Other aides meanwhile tried to downplay and defuse the remarks...