Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gallagher, Harvard's long distance golden girl, who posted wins in the 5000-and 3000-meter races, shared the "most outstanding tack performer" award with Princeton sprinter Sally Anderson...
...rate stimulated by unchanging anticipation of these increasing prices. Companies and labor unions decide expenditures, wage policies and investment strategies with a stream of future price increases in mind. The need to alter this conception for the future has played a large role in the administration's strong ideological tack against budget increases and fiscal waste. Stockman personifies a ruthlessness in policy and intent meant to foster the nation's belief in the positive results of the supply-side experiment. The Reagan administration's recent disagreements with private forecasting firms over the pace of the economy's recovery...
...quickly ties of this succession of typically helpless victims. But the movie does take a surprising tack away from the obvious horror movie devices--an aggressor gets it. A rapist, in the process of attacking a woman, lies on the sand for a split-second too long and suddenly rolls over in blood, writhing in pain--the monster has struck, and this time where it counts...
...other hand, Royko, played by Burt Young (Adrienne's chunky brother in Rocky), is believeable, since he does not seem to take either the killings of the movie too seriously. A Chicago cop, intruding with his grubby humor and lack of tack on the mellow L.A. police force, he thrives by maintaining a detached attitude to all the goings on. After the police dig where a woman disappeared, he scoops up a bloody round object, plops it in a baggie, and yells to the woman's lover, "hey, what color eyes does she have--un, did she have...
Reagan then did some prodding of his own by indicating that he might attempt a different, unspecified tack if the crisis was not resolved by the time he takes office on Jan. 20. Though he said he would probably support a Carter-negotiated settlement, the President-elect would not commit himself absolutely. Said Reagan...