Word: skies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which were brought on by a monthlong cold snap across much of the nation. Moreover, several major banks last week raised their prime interest rate on business loans back up to 16½%, canceling the half-point drop of a week earlier and reinforcing a winter-long level of sky-high interest charges that could all too easily abort an early recovery from recession, or keep the rebound weak when it does begin...
Over the years, OPEC ministers have had no trouble raising prices to sky-high levels. Now, however, the world is awash with excess crude-2 million to 3 million bbl. of unused oil per day-and the production cuts necessary to firm up the market are more than some members have so far seemed willing to bear...
Lethal warships in space. Laser beams fired from orbiting rockets. Satellites zapped out of the sky. It sounds like the script of Star Wars, but according to testimony last week, the Pentagon's top weapons man believes it is perilously close to becoming a reality. Richard DeLauer, chief of research and engineering for the Defense Department, predicts that the Soviet Union may be ready to put into orbit as early as next year laser weapons capa ble of destroying U.S. spy and communications satellites. By 1990, he expects the Soviets to have "a large, permanent, manned, orbital space complex...
...sprawls on the ground a yard beneath us. The one interloper who did make it into the craft does not talk. He sits in the doorway, legs swinging in the rush of air, staring at the volcano, where the sun has set, leaving a ribbon of red across the sky. Nobody says anything on the way back...
...lessons, talking and living music, combined with nigh time lunacy. This was no kiddie camp, so there weren't curfews or parietals. And because we were stupid and inspired by our wacky role models, we stayed up incessantly-to bake early-morning bread, or contemplate the eternal under a sky-full of stars. Music was everything, but sex was more than everything. The outside world quickly faded, and no one read newspapers. We all turned vegetarian...