Word: sapping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rock music is much wilder. Just think how tame the Beatles' music is today: it's almost Muzak. And the sexual revolution -- in the mid-'60s the idea of a coed dorm, putting those nubile young things and these young men in the season of the rising sap in the same dormitories, on the same floors! Now the coed dorm is like I-95. It's there. It hums. And you don't notice...
Some investors are worried that Manville's huge obligations could sap its spending on research and capital improvements. But the company will spend $150 million a year through 1991 to expand and modernize its plants. The ; streamlining has also produced an extra $200 million in cash that the company may use for acquisitions. Stephens, who says he would like to teach college when he leaves Manville, will have an eventful corporate odyssey to recount for his students...
...unknown. They can be triggered, for example, by extended periods of sunny weather following heavy rains. Scientists believe algal growth is speeded up by the runoff of agricultural fertilizers. The burgeoning algae form a dense layer of vegetation that displaces other plants. As the algae die and decay, they sap enormous amounts of oxygen from the water, asphyxiating fish and other organisms...
...aimed to evoke the fiery spirit of the composer's music right from the start. But as she opened her 4-min. program with a daring combination of back-to-back triple toe loops, she mistakenly touched both feet down on the second jump. That tiny error seemed to sap her usual strength. When, midway through her routine, she faltered and put a hand on the ice, it began to feel as though the Titanic were sinking. Witt, conversely, had held tough, her Carmen enticing and flirting shamelessly. Radiant in a red costume, Witt thrived on audience adulation, tossing provocative...
...same time, external forces have conspired to sap the city's corporate strength. In the past six years 23 of the city's 50 largest public companies have disappeared in a flurry of mergers and acquisitions. Ill-advised loans to Latin American countries backfired on BankAmerica Corp., once the nation's largest financial institution. The bank has eliminated almost 30% of its work force and auctioned off moneymaking assets; still it has not turned a profit in three years. Even Standard Oil, the state's largest company, has retrenched in its headquarters town. The decline of the city's corporate...