Word: surfeited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...four days since we walked off Fire Base Hall. There has been no contact but several scares, a lot of heat, a surfeit of leeches, too much rain for the dry season, and a wearying round of days that begin at 7 and end twelve hours later, when the light fails. Charlie Company is one-third of the way through its patrol. Ten more days exactly like the four before, and Charlie will be taken back to a fire base, to stand in reserve in case another unit needs assistance. Three days on the base, and ten more...
...this, then, the role of the poet in a civilization sliding downhill-the metaphorical fate reserved for a Borges? Is prosaic reality the only escape today? Elsewhere in his writings, Borges suggests that there is such a thing as a surfeit of language. In a parable about Shakespeare, he writes that the dramatist, fired with the need to fill his own emptiness of spirit, created a rich panoply of kings, villains and lovers. In time, he wearied of all the pomp and splendor and abruptly returned to a plainer reality. Aged and blind, Borges may have sought a similar respite...
That meant that the dollar was no longer as good as gold. Thus foreigners had to sell their dollars in money markets for whatever they could get. Since a surfeit of dollars was sloshing around the world already, they could not expect to get much. In effect the dollar had been devalued...
Critical Juncture. On balance, the pact is a significant success for Soviet foreign policy at a time when the Kremlin has had a surfeit of diplomatic setbacks. Nor is there any doubt that it was a disturbing defeat for U.S. policy (see box). The treaty was signed less than 24 hours after Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko arrived in New Delhi on a visit that had been announced only 48 hours earlier. Before a cheering crowd estimated at 1,500,000 people on the day of the signing, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi insisted unconvincingly that the treaty does not alter...
...customers increases, the purity of the heroin is decreased, leading to bigger volume and bigger profits for the dealer. In less than a year, a diligent pusher with a $100-a-week business can be netting $10,000 a week. What started the killings in Detroit was a surfeit of aspirants for $10,000-a-week businesses...