Word: solidities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...section entitled "So you see it takes a lot of work," are light, simple and clear. The tone belies the disturbing fact that most of these children are no more than 12 years old, yet have worked long enough to consider it the main activity of their lives, a solid part of their memories, rather than games and play time which predominate the memories of most American children...
...most promising sign that a solid foundation has been laid for recovery is the progress being made against inflation. Consumer prices rose only 3.9% last year, compared with 8.9% in 1981 and 12.4% in 1980. In January wholesale prices actually fell 1%. Lower inflation will help speed economic expansion because families will be able to buy more for their money...
...increasingly fatter salaries from the Daily Mail to the Express to the Sun to the Star, and finally to the Mirror. He likes the royals. "They all mean a great deal to me," he says. He looks to the Queen for comfort, he says, "because she's jolly solid. We'll miss a story if it's going to upset the Queen." No evidence is offered that anyone has done so. As for the other royals, reverence has its limits. "I feel the public has a right to know anything we can tell them. My job is to report every...
...survey maps, Whitaker and Photographer Kenny Lennox entered the jungle at 5:55 one morning, just before sunup. They were on a patch of land opposite the beach where Charles and Diana were staying. Says Whitaker: "We crawled, carrying a lens the size of a bloody howitzer for a solid hour and a half. By 7:50 a.m. we were in position, a half-mile across the water from the beach. Finally Diana appeared at 11:20. When she turned up in a bikini, it was too good to be true. We also knew we'd be in trouble...
Especially successful were senior Co-Captains Calvin Dixon and George White. Dixon drove for alley-oop lay-ins that brought the crow do its feet, while White turned in a solid defensive performance. But both White and Dixon will graduate without a victory over their hometown's Ivy representative...