Word: slided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Preacher Jerry Falwell made a big splash last March when he wrested the PTL television ministry from Jim Bakker. Last week the minister made another big splash. Wearing a natty blue suit, Falwell, 54, plunged down the "Killer Typhoon" water slide at PTL's Heritage USA amusement park...
...faster than it has so far. A weaker dollar would make American exports cheaper and imports more expensive -- and that would make the U.S. better able to repay its debts. But America's major creditors, who are also its major trading partners, are not wild about a further rapid slide in the dollar's value: such a precipitate decline would erode the trade surpluses that made them creditors in the first place. They are better served if the U.S. continues to consume foreign goods while increasing its foreign debt, albeit at a reduced rate. Thus the potential for further uncertainty...
...them upward to account for inflation and other factors. AT&T rejoiced at the decision, which Wall Street analysts say could allow the company's profits to jump by an estimated 50% by 1990. But consumer advocates blasted the proposal and claimed it would bring an end to the slide in AT&T's long-distance prices, which have fallen some 34% since the company's divestiture...
...opposite but equally crazy ways in which two sisters react to their mother's death and their father's potential remarriage. An explicit tribute to the quasi-supernatural stories of Henry James and Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Heartstones also makes full use of Rendell's own trademark chill, a slide-under-the-microsc ope dispassion that permits all sorts of behavior but forgives nothing. No other living mystery writer complains more openly about the burden of fans expecting her to bring back series characters when she has other pursuits in mind. In A Dark-Adapted Eye and Heartstones, Rendell does...
Seven members of one family were killed when their house was demolished by a mud slide in the southern city of Kwangju, the officials said...