Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...direct outgrowth of last November's economic summit at Rambouillet, France. At that meeting, President Gerald Ford and the heads of five other major industrial nations agreed to intervene to keep money markets orderly, which could include support for specific currencies that were deemed to have sunk too low. For months the British argued that investors had overreacted to Britain's formidable economic woes and had left sterling undervalued. While a cheaper pound gave British goods a price advantage in world markets, it also kicked up inflation by making more expensive the huge amounts of food...
...facility, sabotage her commode or something. He has used intentional by-pass strategies in the past, forgetting or neglecting critical areas. He has cleaned off glass shelves and not put the articles back in place. He has sprinkled water on toilet seats and rolls of tissue. He has even sunk so low as throwing out the Playboys and Penthouses he found strewn at the base of more than one toilet. In short, he has taken revenge on rudeness by using insidious and evil methods...
...most-polluted crew member" distinction went to a Mower resident who could not recall his name. His raft, the "Detente," had sunk after 20 feet and he had spent the rest of the race consuming an entire bottle of Scotch...
...pleasing in schematic drawings in real life form a confusing jumble, one in which it's hard to tell where the order is. The red brick, while offset by inset balconies and windows, is still massive and intimidating. The pedestrian areas are claustrophobic, their trees in neat rows or sunk in cement, quite unlikely to be the site of casual gatherings. The river is nearby, but so is the noisy traffic on Soldiers Field Road, Western Ave. and the Mass Pike. The complex's curious siting isolates it from most of the surrounding area, so that if you wanted...
...expensive defeat for the companies, which have sunk $22 million into promoting, researching and engineering the $3.5 billion installation. In the planning stage since 1962, the plant would have exploited the vast deposits of low-sulfur coal in southern Utah and, when fully operational, generated 3 million kilowatts for customers in Arizona and Southern California-enough power to meet the needs of some 3 million people. The project's demise is also a blow to the economy of Utah, which had envisioned the creation near the plant of a town of up to 15,000, additional payrolls...