Word: stoke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just crank up the stereo, stoke up the boiler and brew some...
...moment's notice, the Government could stoke the economy by cutting taxes, increasing spending and expanding the money supply. "There is a zero chance of depression," says Richard Rahn, chief economist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He scorns the loose depression talk. "The wimps of the world," he says, "buckle when the going gets a little rough...
...commonly accepted view of the region's geology is that the plate bearing the African continent is generally pushing north and trying to slip under the Eurasian plate. That movement, under way for millions of years, created the Alps and has helped to stoke such volcanoes as Sicily's Mount Etna. The devastating 7.2 quake that leveled the Algerian city of El Asnam nearly two months ago, killing more than 2,500, occurred almost precisely at one of the points where the African and Eurasian plates are believed to be thrusting against each other. But the Italian peninsula...
...Eckstein projects that it will rise to $35 per bbl. by year's end and $42 per bbl. by the end of 1981. A rise of that magnitude, more than double the U.S.'s projected climb in consumer prices during the period, would stoke up inflation all over again...
...problem had been getting someone who could rearrange his schedule for a year, and to got to someone who is semi-retired and who has had long experience with undergraduates was a brilliant stoke," Bowersock, who had urged Rosovsky to appoint an acting dean, said...