Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shouts of the terrified crowd, Abu Ghazala radioed a military facility near by for a helicopter to pick up the stricken President. It arrived three or four minutes later in an area behind the reviewing stand. Jehan Sadat, who had watched the assault unfold from her box, tried to rush to her husband's side, but was pushed down forcefully by her security guard. She finally reached Sadat's side as he was lifted on a stretcher into the helicopter for the 20-minute flight to Maadi Military Hospital, south of Cairo, where the deposed Shah of Iran had died...
Bret Schundler, now the coach at Winthrop, remembers agreeing not to hit his limping foe. "But then the guy decided one play to rush, I had no choice but to block," Schundler said. Not a pretty sight...
...impending doom because of the elimination of species stems from the Ehrlichs' first and constantly invoked example, which, sad to say, is laughable. "Imagine that, just before you are about to board a jet plane, you see a man busily prying rivets out of its wings. As you rush in a panic back down the gangplank, he calls out, "Don't worry, I've taken a lot of rivets out already and the wing hasn't fallen off yet!" This scenario is supposed to be analagous to losing a few more species: One more might not matter...
...inroads. About one of every three new cars sold in the U.S. is now a foreign model, and in California, Oregon and Washington imports have 50% of the market. To keep the situation from becoming worse, American automakers about two years ago abandoned the traditional fall introduction and now rush their new fuel-efficient cars onto the market as fast as they can, whenever they are ready...
While Ford does not need a Chrysler-style Government bailout, it still requires large quantities of cash in order to rush the new small cars into production. But right now that cash is hard to get. Slow sales have decreased Ford's normal money flow, and the company's bond rating, a sign of its borrowing power, has slipped from Aaa to A. So far, Ford claims it has CHARLESTERNES not been forced to cut spending on new car development, but David Healy of Drexel Burnham Lambert...