Word: spew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stalinist model of forced industrialization that was imposed on Poland after World War II. Compounding the error, the government in 1971 moved to modernize Polish industry with heavy infusions of Western technology and capital. Former Party Boss Edward Gierek dreamed of a throbbing new industrial sector that would spew out exports for Western markets and earn hard currency to repay Poland's debt and raise its standard of living. The plan backfired in the mid-1970s when Poland, hampered by mismanagement, rising energy prices and a Western recession, could not sell its inferior products abroad...
INVOKING HIS typewriter as a 20th century muse, Tom Robbins launches into his third novel with the warning, "If this typewriter can't do it, then fuck it, it can't be done." Like a keypunch operator waiting for a computer to spew out solutions, Robbins must have sat hopefully in front of his Remington SL3 expecting that, if he hit a button here and there, the sophisticated machine would spit back a novel of answers. Still Life With Woodpecker does not bear...
...third of the University's endowment). It was supposed to give three kinds of energy to the hospitals and medical schools in the area and do so cheaply and efficiently. But Harvard's dream became a nightmare when the neighbors found out that the engines in that plant might spew gases that could hurt their pets and children. And the state said Harvard couldn't have its engines and the University called its battery of attorneys in to fix the mess but they couldn't. And instead of talking to the community leaders, Harvard brought in its scientific experts...
...operators time to act, the State Department has installed heavy steel doors that can be slid into place to block the stairways to the upper floors of embassies, where the code rooms are located. Another new security ploy: nozzles in the corridors that at the push of a button spew tear or nausea gas on invaders...
...University planners have still been unable to secure state approval for installing the diesel engines which will produce the bulk of that electricity. Community groups in the Misison Hill and Brookline area have argued that the plant's diesels will spew dangerous nitrous oxides and carcinogens into their backyards. A series of state agency recommendations and rulings handed down this year have done nothing but further delay a project that is already several years late...