Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Election Day draws closer, there will be a strong temptation for both Carter and Congress to rush to stimulate the economy either through a new burst of federal spending or a quick tax cut. The Administration will also face problems coming up with the balanced budget that Carter has promised for fiscal year 1981, which begins in October. Last week, for instance, the White House decided to ask Congress for a supplemental unemployment appropriation of $1.5 billion to cover increased outlays for workers idled by the downturn. Further such requests are quite possible in the months ahead...
...READ The Transit of Venus is to leave the crazed nihilistic rush of the modern street and to venture into the lucid stillness of an old place, maybe an art museum, of finer craftsmanship and the echos of time. This novel hauntingly portrays contemporary life, always going past it, past the preoccupations and manias of the moment, to a longer, stiller perspective...
...reason Iranian exports no longer count for so much is that the Khomeini regime has pushed up petroleum prices so high that customers have ceased their pay-any-price scramble for Iranian supplies. The leader of the rush last autumn was Japan, which was willing to pay as much as $40 per bbl. But by last week Japan had bulging oil stockpiles, and the country refused Iran's latest asking price of $35 per bbl. for long-term supply contracts. Iran immediately cut off all energy shipments to Japan, which now joins the U.S. and Portugal on Tehran...
Despite the mobs of customers trying to buy the $69.99 tickets, World's splash promotion was off to a bumpy start last week. Many of the first flights into the air were only half-full because ticket offices had been so overwhelmed by the rush of customers and the company's malfunctioning computer reservation system showed that the planes were full. The colorful and controversial gambler in the air has spun the wheel again; passengers will decide if he comes up a winner...
...would have been easy to romanticize the simple, patient people exemplifying that point. Rosi does not do it. He draws them with full dimensionality, verve and gentle irony. And with a sympathy that never veers into noble-peasant sentimentality. In this cut, Levi's story seems to rush rather suddenly to a conclusion, but even so it is well worth attending...