Word: swallow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...jobs in their countries. The U.S. has no chance of getting a 10% devaluation generally accepted, but the offer was an effective bargaining tactic that put the Europeans and Japanese on the defensive. They concluded that they would have to refigure how large a U.S. devaluation they could swallow, and what changes they would make in their own currencies...
...more than 800° F., hot enough to melt lead) there is a possibility that organisms may have evolved at levels of the atmospheres where temperatures and pressures are moderate. The irrepressible Sagan has speculated that one form of Jovian life might be large, ballasted, gasbag-like creatures that swallow up organic matter as they float through...
...Administration that they want no part of the CRR or the Resolution which spawned it. And for two years, the Faculty and Administration have ignored these indications and clung to the hope that, if only the correct technical formula can be found, the student body can be induced to swallow...
Labor leaders had to swallow some of their more blustery words when they agreed to stay on the Pay Board even after losing the key vote on overall wage standards for Phase II-but it may prove a profitable meal. The board's guiding rule that most future increases should be held to an average of 5.5% looks simple enough, but what it will mean in practice will be determined largely by case-by-case decisions in which labor will be an articulate participant. One thing, however, is entirely clear: the guideline emphatically does not mean that pay raises...
...believe ourselves to be so naive or cynical that we have fallen for Nixon's scheme? Are we so simple-minded that we are satisfied by yellow men dying instead of white and black? I cannot swallow the media's apathy theory. It is not apathy that has infected and paralyzed student protest. It is despair--a despair rooted in weariness and supported by the selfish but short-lived convenience of inaction...