Word: squeaking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years he was regarded as a solitary pip-squeak voice on the far right, a lonely ideologue from a Southern backwater. Today he can intimidate the Secretary of State, thwarting Alexander Haig's key sub-Cabinet appointments. When he notifies the White House that he wants to tell Ronald Reagan in person about certain gripes, the President cheerfully agrees to hear him out-even if the message includes a few instructions on how the President should behave as a true Reaganite...
...think it's great to see UCLA knocked off by Brigham Young--good for the sport when those titans lose. And that sure was stirring watching tiny St. Joseph's squeak past big, bed, top-ranked DePaul. But Kentucky? UAB? Gene Bartow...
...Until mid-last week I would have guessed Carter by a squeak, but if I'm to believe the polls of this weekend then I'd have to shift that guess to Reagan by a substantial electoral vote," Neustadt said...
...that U.S. banks can still increase their lending during the year ahead by an additional 10% over 1979 levels. Thus, if European banks, which last year lent about 85% of all Third World borrowing, were to be equally forthcoming this year, Third World borrowers would probably be able to squeak through. In short, the feared large-scale loan defaults do not loom as likely...