Word: sinking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bubbles high up on the ship's sun deck. Fellow passenger Renato Deoliveira, 19, obediently passes along a lethal concoction of 151-proof Myers's rum, apricot brandy, coconut rum and fruit punch, while Ted and Kay LaTour, a Milwaukee couple in their 60s, laugh indulgently and sink lower in the froth. "Supposedly we're in a recession," says Ted. "But you look around this cruise and wonder...
...Crimson starts slow after its 20-day exam break, but manages to get enough good defense and timely offense to sink the Engineers. Steve Martins chalks up another to goals in the last game of the month...
Ronan recalls watching the Columbia band in action, playing kazoos, pans, and "everything but the kitchen sink...
Italy is burdened by public debt, 6.4% inflation and 10.2% unemployment. The great Italian trade names -- Olivetti, Pirelli, Fiat -- are struggling. For most citizens the implications of this recession are only beginning to sink in, but labor leaders say the crisi will soon hit the whole white-collar sector. Yet the country's planners look abroad for succor. "Everything depends on what happens in the U.S.," says Tancredi Bianchi, president of the Italian Banking Association. Confindustria, the employers' federation, is also hoping that "the symptoms of recovery are confirmed...
...election time, which only enhances the formidable benefits of incumbency, and they are increasingly likely to embrace quick-fix "reforms," like term limitations, whose eventual effects can only be guessed at. It is one thing for citizens to indulge themselves in democratic uppityness; it's quite another to sink into sullen discouragement...