Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eight years of study, the expenditure of $4.5 billion on the missile and consideration of some 30 options, the Pentagon still lacks a politically acceptable and scientifically credible basing mode for its sophisticated bird. Reagan, Weinberger and a flurry of military papers and briefings had all failed in the rush to sell Dense Pack, the basing plan that would plant 100 of the 71-ft.-tall missiles in a 21-sq.-mi. strip of Wyoming, 14 miles long by 1.5 miles wide. Proponents argued that because the missiles would be clustered so closely, incoming Soviet rockets theoretically would destroy...
...more telling. Almost every day at about 8:30 a.m. last week, a burgundy Ford station wagon and a white Dodge escorted by two police motorcycles pulled away from Mexico City's southern suburb of Coyoacán. The modest motorcade traveled unobtrusively, inching along in the morning rush hour's endless traffic snarl and dutifully stopping at every traffic light. Finally, about 30 minutes later, it would arrive at the massive and ornate National Palace. A short, handsome figure with graying hair at his temples would emerge: it was the new President of Mexico, Miguel...
...three years ago, when inflation was steaming along at double-digit levels, a philosophy of buy-now-before-the-price-goes-up gripped the consumer. Sales of consumer durables held their own. Now, with inflation limping along at an annual rate of about 5%, there is no rush to buy expensive items. In fact, it often pays to wait. Says Irwin Kellner, chief economist at Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co.: "Buyers see that the longer they wait, the better the deals will...
...snow is here, the trees are lit, and the stores of Harvard Square are in the middle of their Christmas rush--time for Winter Break...
...performance will come on the heels of a some what less structured holiday performance outside in the Yard featuring the mixed Harvard Radcliffe Chorus, strolling in circles and sending up Christmas carols to the freshman dorms (The Chorus formal holiday concert came this past Sunday, to beat the Christmas rush...