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Word: rushes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other voices, however, are beginning to demand what to many bankers is unthinkable: declare Poland in default. That would probably trigger a worldwide rush to seize Polish assets located outside the country. It could also push the international banking system toward chaos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Itching to Pull the Plug on Poland | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

...freshman speedster Jenny Hale the exhilaration comes afterward. The rush comes when you know you've skilled, "faster...faster... pushing it to the edge until you're almost not in control," At the bottom you're loose, you smile uncontrollably, and you can't wait to do it again...

Author: By Jeffrey E. Seiffert, | Title: Former Downhill Racer Paces Skiers | 2/26/1982 | See Source »

...satisfy those concerned by the hugeness of the proposed military escalation. Reagan's budget still has a wish-list quality, including a Christmas tree of weapons. In his "posture statement" outlining strategy, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger seemed to say that the U.S., because of the Soviet threat, must rush to be all places at once. There are no priorities established, no evidence of making tough choices, and despite threats by Congress that cuts would be made one way or another, Carlucci last week adamantly refused to say which weapons were more vital than others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fat on the Sacred Cow | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

...Berlin film festival, which began its annual run last week, 80 German films were elbowing for attention. The rush of local productions is due in no small degree to generous federal and state subsidies for fringe film makers. But even these have started to pay off. Filmverlag der Autoren, the production company that has supported many pioneers of the new German cinema for more than a decade, finally went into the black last year. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog and Wim Wenders have earned reputations as world-class film makers. These and other directors who restored German film to artistic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bravado Is Their Passport | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

...Christiane and her boyfriend Detlev (Thomas Haustein) spiral into the lower depths, the movie becomes as exhausting and repetitive as a reprobate's confession. But this is Screenwriter Herman Weigel's point. There is no drama in this drama-no rush, no reason, no alternative, no future. The junkie's world is not a series of adrenaline highs and remorseful lows; it is one endless anguish. The victims are zombies, gray-faced, living dead. Director Ulrich Edel hews to a semidocumentary style, but his message is out of the classic German monster movies: There is a golem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bravado Is Their Passport | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

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