Word: stretched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...main problem with a stretch-out of Brazilian loans is that it would be followed by pleas from other debt-laden countries, including Mexico, Poland, Argentina, Chile and Nigeria, for similar concessions. Brazil's difficulties are only part of a much larger global pattern, and the major creditor and debtor nations have yet to come up with a coherent long-range plan to ease the debt burden that is crippling the world economy. So far, temporary IMF bailouts on a case-by-case basis have only kept the international financial system lurching from crisis to crisis...
...swimming dual meet winning streak. Twelve Ivy League championships in all (nine men's and three women's), four more than Princeton copped in its 1976-77 season (the best year an Ivy school had enjoyed before). And with these titles, a list of individual accomplishments you could stretch from Cambridge to New Haven...
...gravel road from Cifuentes to Las Trojes is a pleasant, ordinary scribble between mountains at roadside and a green valley. Peasants pick their way as rickety trucks rumble by. The main thing to interest a foreign visitor on the stretch, a four-hour drive southeast of the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, is that the border with Nicaragua is as little as 20 or 30 yards away. There is a sporadic, undeclared war between the two countries; the proximity can mean "action"-gunfire. Last week that promise of a story drew Reporter Dial Torgerson, 55, of the Los Angeles Times, and Freelance...
...could hardly have been an accident: the men were almost certainly identifiable as civilians; the attackers probably shot from no more than 150 to 300 yards away. An American journalist who had been in Sandinista encampments in recent weeks had witnessed a soldier firing a cannon at the same stretch of road. When asked why, the soldier said, "A vehicle was passing...
...guessed the fatal venture, as if to suggest it need not have happened. The road was known to be dangerous, they argued: two British journalists had been fired on in separate incidents in the previous few days; in his final week Cross had twice survived gunfire along the same stretch. But the critics soon acknowledged that they too would probably have headed along the road in any circumstance short of pitched battle and that men with cameras would take the utmost risks to get close to the action. Said Miami Herald Photographer Murry Sill: "It is like being...