Word: skies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...homebuilders, auto dealers and businessmen from every walk of life out of business, and in such numbers that bankruptcies around the country are beginning to rival those of the Great Depression. The cost of money is crimping the investment that U.S. industry needs to make to become more productive. Sky-high rates are putting state and local governments everywhere in a financing bind, forcing up the cost of borrowing and driving down the ability to spend for schools, roads, sewers and just about everything else that people expect and need from the governments that serve them...
...have seen quite enough "green rolling land and pure white houses," to make us long for the squalid city at the end of the line. We have been innundated with "the whine and hiss of traffic" and have breathed so much of the thin mountain air that gives "the sky an extra vibrant richness" that we are gasping for oxygen. The book, like the journey, has its grueling stretches...
...Unfortunately, Scott was dispatched to that great city room in the sky when the actor playing him quit the role and the Rev. Pat Robertson, 51, the founder and spiritual leader of CBN, decided that Another Life needed an even more exalted spiritual emphasis. "There is a yearning inside of people for the ultimate meaning in life," Robertson says. "We hope to come up with programs that provide answers to that yearning. The problem is not just sex and violence on the major networks, it's the banality...
...that we had just eaten?a social invitation by the General Secretary could not be refused. Our minds addled by a 15-hour plane trip and our bellies distended by a Russian dinner, we sped to the Kremlin. Brezhnev received us in what looked like a Churchill jumpsuit in sky blue. He did not neglect to remind me that...
Courtney Stimpson is not one to attract much attention. Small in stature, she does not look particularly athletic. Sky in the presence of strangers, she is not one to best of her accomplishment, or even to talk about herself at great length. And once on the court, she plays an uninspiring brand of squash that is for more efficient than it is spectacular...