Word: stride
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...financial markets took the news in stride, since the situation may not be as bad as the June figures suggest. For the first six months of 1988, the trade deficit is running at an annual rate of $140 billion, a significant improvement from 1987's record $170 billion...
Such a discouraging report might have caused grain futures to surge at the Chicago Board of Trade, but traders expected the worst and took the news in stride. Prices for corn and soybeans actually fell slightly the day after the report was released. Still, prices were far higher than before the drought got bad. Soybeans sold for $8.50 per bu., up from $6.92 in May, and corn was $2.87 per bu., compared with $2.02 three months...
...Jesus to be understood? Did he stride out of the wilderness 2,000 years ago to preach a gentle message of peace and brotherhood? Or did he perhaps advocate some form of revolution? Or did he instead look for heavenly intervention to establish the kingdom of God? What did it mean for Jesus to be tempted by sin? When did he realize that his mission would end with death upon a cross? Did he view himself as the promised Messiah? Did he understand himself to be both God and man, and what imponderable struggles of the soul would that have...
...have reached the Applegate of my years. Metaphorically, my bat speed has slowed, my reflexes have begun to dim and more than a stride has been lost going down the line to first. That may help explain why I follow with such fascination and dread the fortunes of the last four big league ballplayers who are older than I am. By daring to stop time for at least one more summer, these final four have become my personal antidotes to middle age, even as I chart their downward slide in the arithmetic of the box scores and the formulaic prose...
...words were inflammatory, but the audience took them in stride. Referring to the discredited era of Leonid Brezhnev, who died in 1982, Vladimir I. Melnikov, an obscure official from the Russian republic, declared from the podium at the 19th All-Union Communist Party Conference, "People who in previous times actively conducted the policy of stagnation cannot now be on, or work in, central party or Soviet organs in the period of restructuring...