Word: swoopingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...host of good hotels, restaurants, spots to satisfy the demand; a year-round influx of some of the world's wealthiest people creates a fascinating dual economy and culture in the oldest state west of the Appalachians. Mercedes sedans park next to beat-up Chevy trucks; private helicopters swoop down on quiet farmland; expensive restaurants spring up next to Billy's Bar; and Joe Bob the trainer, a plug of Red Man in his cheek and a splash of mud on his boots, rubs elbows with Texas wildcatters and Arabian princes...
State leaders are more concerned about the Administration's proposed budget cuts, which they feel could wipe out state reserves in one swoop. Reductions in the federal contribution to state and local governments would force states to scale back many popular programs. In New York, officials say the Reagan budget proposal could cost the state $170 million in Medicaid funds, $458 million in revenue sharing, $271 million in sewage-system construction grants and $67 million for child-nutrition programs. That would turn a modest surplus into a deficit of about three-quarters of a billion dollars. The shortfalls would...
Falwell's followers believe Christians will be swept or "raptured" into heaven before the great Tribulation. A common version of the end is that the Soviet Union (the evil northern empire of Ezekiel 38-39) will swoop down upon Israel but be defeated. After a later battle at Armageddon, God will inaugurate the millennium...
...walking distance. (Most hotels will continue the usual summer practice of discounting rooms 10% to 25%.) A 60-acre parking lot provides space for 7,500 cars and can handle about 20,000 bus passengers daily. From another huge parking lot, directly across the river in Algiers, visitors can swoop into the fair in a new 2,200-ft., $12.5 million gondola (gon-doh-la to natives). The ride in the six-person cars is worth it on its own for the spectacular views of the Mississippi, Lake Pontchartrain and the city 350 ft. below...
...Bank in Raleigh, N.C., sums up the fighting mood now prevalent among local bankers by saying, "For a hundred years we've been trying to build our own capital base in the South. We're not going to let some Yankee money-center banks come in and swoop it all up." Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island last spring created the first U.S. regional banking zone. This allows institutions in one of the states to acquire banks or savings and loans in the other two. The Bank of Boston ($20 billion) promptly took advantage...