Word: spate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...money to build a decent prison, someone who points to unreclaimed strip mines and calls them "unavoidable consequences of progress." They'll have to follow an impulse that has always existed within the American Left--direct community efforts to create non-governmental institutions. There will be a spate of new schools and neighborhood patrols, and the libertarian movement, on the other side, will continue to pick up steam, as people realize that when government won't solve problems for everybody at once, small-scale community solutions are the only possibility...
...Gdansk-based Interfactory Strike Committee (MKS) that became the bargaining agent for over 400 Baltic enterprises. Most astounding of all were the agreements that finally ended the major strikes. In addition to pay raises and increased social benefits, Gierek's regime had granted -on paper at least-a spate of political concessions unprecedented anywhere in a Communist country: independent, worker-run trade unions, a legal right to strike and a relaxation of censorship. In return, the strikers agreed to recognize the supremacy of the Communist Party and to keep their independent trade unions out of the "political" realm...
...have been dwelling on elephants, donkeys, and dog days in the economy, the bulls have pulled a fast one. Shrugging off gloomy news about rising unemployment, sagging industrial production and red ink all over Detroit, stock prices have been surging steadily for almost four months. Last week, following a spate of near-panic buying that sent total trading volume on the New York Stock Exchange well above 50 million shares on two successive days, the Dow Jones average of 30 blue-chip industrial stocks closed at 954.69, its highest level since March 1977. The Dow's rise of about...
...also made an unscheduled visit to Koblenz, 40 miles south of Bonn, where he was born in 1926; his father was a civilian official with French forces occupying the Rhineland. Often looking more populist than patrician, the spindly French President plunged into the crowds, delighting them with a spate of French-accented German phrases...
...news came early and in abundance for Harvard in the second half. Four players with three fouls--Allen, Mannix, Harris and Clarke--all struggled to play gingerly. Allen's fourth foul and a spate of early turnovers meant an expanding Yale lead...