Word: spurted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thailand is also enjoying a spurt because its currency is strong, its financial markets are awash with funds, and loans are therefore easy to get. Said Narongchai Akrasanee, an economic adviser to Thailand's Industrial Finance Corp.: "For the first time in history, banks have gone to customers, begging them to borrow...
...started his second its players in the first quarter to show just how deep the Bruins are. And the subs produced a 3-2 lead. In the second quarter, with the Brown regulars in, the Crimson struck back. Now trailing, 4-2, it reeled off three unanswered goals--a spurt motivated by a brutal foul committed by the Bruins' Steve Ennis. He nailed Graham with a well-aimed kick to the groin and was thrown...
Being "sent down," or Xiafang, as the Chinese call it, was very simple punishment. "Stinking intellectuals" were supposed to learn from the peasants what life is like when one must stoop for hours transplanting rice seedlings in the wet muck. Horror stories spurt ? not grisly horror like eye gouging (which was reported only in south China), but simpler torment like being interrogated round the clock by Red Guards...
Friday. The Washington Post published a letter from Attorney General William French Smith, angry about an editorial in the paper that suggested the Administration's "spurt of activity" was prompted by a calculated worry about the 1984 campaign. Protested Smith, citing Justice Department efforts to fight racial discrimination: "Since January 1981, we have been vigorously enforcing civil rights laws...
...organizing a national political drive. It is already too late in the day for Glenn's campaign to employ any direct-mail program; the candidate dithered around for months and would not make up his mind. The indecision has cut seriously into money raising. Glenn's recent spurt in the polls-he drew close to Mondale and ran 17 points ahead of Reagan-was a golden opportunity to zero in on new funds. But Glenn is still put off by the business of hustling for money. While Mondale makes hundreds of calls each week, Glenn can bring himself...