Word: slews
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gains the advantage and could dispatch the Prince, but repeatedly chooses through sheer bravado to spare Hal and permit him to rearm Hal's combative skill is thus cheapened, and his eventual victory is made hollow, the result of mere chance. (It is, by the way, not known who slew the historical Hotspur...
...there is one representative per 75 students. Even at Cornell, with 12,000 undergrads, the Student Senate boasts just 30 elected representatives. During both constitutional conventions here in 1977-78 and 1981-82, a prime concern was electoral accountability, and the student politicos designing the structures have chosen a slew of council seats as the correct way to avoid communications breakdowns...
...Neill, Reagan took to prime-time TV to urge Americans to tell Congress that "this is no time for politics as usual-that you too want an end to runaway taxes, spending, Government debt and high interest rates." Although he bogged down slightly while reeling off a slew of figures and his red marker pen failed him as he tried to make a point with a chart, the President smoothly presented his central argument. The Democrats, he said, "want more and more spending and more and more taxes," while "I believe we should have less spending, less taxes and more...
Corporations realize that engineers are the advance forces in the global battle for markets, and other countries are paying great attention to training these skilled workers. Japan turns out about 40% more engineers than does the U.S. A standard joke in American boardrooms is that when Washington passed a slew of environmental regulations, Detroit's automakers hired 200 more lawyers but Japan hired 200 more engineers. U.S. firms now seem to realize that they could use fewer lawyers and more engineers. -By John S. DeMott...
...opening game, the nervous squad committed a slew of errors, letting good pitches go by for strikes and popping the ball up in the stiff breeze for easy outs...