Word: spate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when you get down to it, this Yale football team is just plain bad. It's true that things wouldn't be so tough without the spate of injuries the Bulldogs have suffered, but the way Yale has lost certain games says a lot about the quality of the team...
...myriad little slips, whether noticed or not, already have Helene at the brink of panic when she receives a spate of anonymous letters, followed by the ex-boyfriend, oozing as much sleaze per celluloid inch as any villain in film history...
...competitive attire, while Levi Strauss, the U.S. Olympic team's overall clothing sponsor, will provide the track and field athletes with such items as presentation suits to be worn on the victory stand. The arrangement, says Vitale, has already paid dividends in the form of a spate of new licensing contracts. One of the largest so far, from Phenix of Japan, is worth a minimum of $3.5 million to the Italian company...
Lawmakers are now considering a spate of bills to protect U.S. companies. The most far-reaching is the so-called domestic-content measure, pushed by the United Auto Workers, which would require foreign automakers to include American parts in cars sold in the U.S. Under the bill, which passed the House last December and was reintroduced when the new Congress took office this year, 90% of the content of imports with annual U.S. sales of 900,000 or more would have to be American made...
...consumers as too gloomy a view, since the world is currently awash in a glut of oil that, according to some experts, may continue for a decade or more. The 1973 embargo and the 1979 supply interruption that followed the Iranian revolution helped spur reductions in demand and a spate of conservation measures. Despite a decade's growth in population, total domestic oil consumption today (15 million bbl. per day) is even lower than the level of 1973, an achievement not anticipated then. Autos made by the big three domestic manufacturers averaged roughly 12 m.p.g. in 1973; today, that...