Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Japan. Says Johsen Takahashi, chief economist of the Mitsubishi Research Institute: "We have a strong feeling that we have to take care of ourselves. The pension system, while greatly improved in recent years, is still not trusted. Many Japanese fear that a change in government or severe inflation would sweep away their future...
...their first collegiate meets, freshman Nick Sweeney and sophomore Mike Short both helped the Crimson sweep field events. Short placed first in the pole vault by clearing 13 ft., while Sweeney captured the shot put with a toss...
...vibrant vision of what theater might be and rarely was (or is). His pieces offered nothing less than his own tumultuously responsive self as the link by which a decaying medium could re-establish its connection with our public lives -- and our secret ones. His elegant disdain helped sweep the boards of the dusty verse drama that then passed for high seriousness, and of the cobwebbed comic conventions that served only a low commercial cunning. His eloquent partisanship opened the doors not just for a new moral consciousness but for fresh forms of theatrical literacy, like Tom Stoppard's bedazzling...
Still, the question has to be asked: who was The Big Winner? It certainly wasn't the Duke, with his lemon-sucking face and even sourer responses. He's crazy if he thinks he'll sweep into office with the shrill yelp that aid to the contras is "A VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW!!!" Turns out it's forbidden by something called the Rio Treaty--one treaty, at least, which the Soviets don't seem to have violated...
...team hopes that its success in the past three meets is indicative of a trend that will sweep it to victory in a key December 5 match against Columbia...