Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Arab states were eager to expand their arsenals. Moreover, the rise in oil prices gave them billions to spend on whatever weapons they desired. "That's when the middlemen like Khashoggi really started to make their killings," says one Middle Eastern arms dealer. "It was the gold rush of the 20th century. Every con man in the world was in Arabia." Between 1970 and 1975, Lockheed alone paid Khashoggi $106 million in commissions. During this same period, he is said to have collected hundreds of millions from other corporations. Khashoggi, says Max Helzel, then vice president of Lockheed's international...
...Deadlines in the various negotiations happened to coincide, but the actions also reflect continued U.S. frustration over its trade deficit. In November the U.S. recorded its worst monthly deficit ever: $19.2 billion, up from $12.1 billion in October. U.S. officials pointed out that extraordinary factors were involved, including the rush of consumers to buy imported items like autos before tax reform eliminated sales-tax deductions. Said U.S. Under Secretary for International Trade Bruce Smart: "We remain confident that 1987 will see a significant improvement." Maybe so, but the November figure meant that the 1986 deficit was running at an annual...
Large laboratories which rush to publish theirresults make themselves vulnerable to fraud,several professors said...
MOST SADDENING Two days after being drafted No. 1 by the Celtics -- his "dream within a dream" -- Maryland Basketball Star Len Bias died in a rush of cocaine. Academic deficiencies came out then, and Coach Lefty Driesell resigned...
...their windows and see 60 miles to the start of the Rockies, blue-purple in the south. The mountains glow orange in New Mexico. In Vermont, your foot cracks snow like wafers around a part of the woods where a brook, not yet frozen, applauds itself in a rush. High over Iowa a hawk hangs still, watching a small boy kick a box in the road...