Word: stabbingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week Congress made a kind of final, flailing stab at reducing those deficits to a manageable level in an effort to return some stability to the economy. The legislators failed miserably in their effort, and in so doing they left the way open for yet another devastating run-up in interest rates, which have bedeviled the economy throughout the Reagan presidency and indeed during much of the Carter presidency that preceded it. The renewed upward pressure now threatens harm to businesses large and small alike, and indeed to everyday people by the millions. They can do little but stand...
...Orpheus, Agon, Symphony in Three Movements) that Balanchine has set to Stravinsky over a period of 50 years. Balanchine worked out key elements of his style-bold, intricate, whip-fast-to this music. Stravinsky's rhythms and punctuation are the idiom of City Ballet dancers, so that their stab-kicking, hip-swiveling, long-leaping display is a unique ballet chronicle...
DIED. Robert Gottschalk, 64, founder-president of Panavision, Inc., who invented light, noiseless, hand-held cameras and lenses that won him an Academy Award and made "Camera by Panavision" one of the screen's most familiar credits; of stab wounds; in Los Angeles. Police arrested a male houseguest with whom, they say, he had had a "falling...
...Voice of America employees not long ago, he did a fast-delivery imitation of how, as a young radio sports announcer in Iowa with only minimal telegraphed clues, he embroidered on a game he could not see ("The shortstop is going over after the ball and makes a wild stab, picks it up, turns and gets him out just in time"). This showed, he said, how the basic truth can be "attractively packaged." But that is closer to a pitchman's attitude toward facts than a reporter...
...quandary--which Borg himself has forced--is actually a stab-in-the-back irony, considering it was on the Wimbledon grass courts that he won his unprecedented five consecutive titles, establishing himself at least for some as the greatest player of all time. Only eight years ago the teen angel drew the adoring squeals of British schoolgirls, and later the throngs of the tennis world who crowded his Wimbledon appearances. In the following seasons and pilgrimages to the English shrine of tennis, his revolutionary playing style and no-nonsense court side conduct earned him respect and defined professionalism...