Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and other Western leaders to discuss Bonn's response to an overture clearly intended by the Soviets to split the allies. In view of the already existing tensions in the alliance, a chancellery aide in Bonn emphasized that Schmidt "is not going to rush into anything. We know full well what is at stake, and the last thing we want is to complicate matters for the alliance...
...probably" at hand, he was also announcing an additional $75 million in federal spending to revamp the housing subsidy program by cutting interest costs for builders and home buyers. After everyone has so long anticipated the recession, the temptation now will be to stop it quickly with a new rush of spending from Washington...
...headlong rush for freedom was touched off after six asylum-seeking Cubans in a bus rammed through the embassy gate; in the fracas, a policeman was killed. Cuban authorities subsequently announced that they were withdrawing their guards from the embassy. Havana has had an ongoing dispute with Peru and other Latin American countries over their policy of granting political asylum to gatecrashing Cubans who manage to gain entrance to their embassies. There is some suspicion that in withdrawing guards from the Peruvian compound officials knew what would happen: thousands of unhappy Cubans from every walk of life began streaming into...
...human beings, in turn, will engage increasingly in minority politics, necessitating a change in the Constitution, which Toffler chummily outlines in a letter addressed to "The Founding Parents." The new race will get more of its information from video screens and disks and terminals, perhaps explaining Toffler's rush to get in print while people still know how to read. Illiteracy may not turn out to be that bad, he predicts, in a world linked by voice-activated computers and "programmed walls." In fact, if Toffler's book is any indication of the next wave of literature, the change might...
...requirements. New energy companies, which are sprouting up in the gas-and oil-rich region like spring wild flowers, are attempting to turn oil leases into sizable fortunes. Their offering circulars detail risks that would daunt the faint of heart. Speculation also fits the local mood. Ever since gold-rush days, Colorado has been flush with get-rich-quick gambits, a mania seen in the uranium boom of the mid-1950s...