Word: tensing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Moreover, financial consultants pointed out that the Administration was projecting the cost of the rescue based on the rosy scenario of a robust economy, declining interest rates and fast-growing thrift deposits. Over the next decade, taxpayers may have to shoulder rescue costs that are tens of billions more dollars...
A. After you've had every other freedom -- the four that Roosevelt enunciated -- the last hobble on your freedom is religion. We saw it in the '60s in the hippie movement, when tens of thousands of young people quite purposely emancipated themselves from ordinary rules.
To be effective, any law regulating semiautomatic assault rifles would have to be federal. It would make no sense to ban such weapons in, say, California, if they could be legally purchased in neighboring Arizona or Oregon. But tens of millions of Americans -- not to mention the Bush Administration -- resist...
This Boy's Life proves good enough to be unforgettable. Tobias Wolff, 43, is the author of two collections of stories and The Barracks Thief (1984), a critically acclaimed novella. He is also the younger brother of Geoffrey Wolff, whose own memoir, The Duke of Deception (1979), introduced tens of...
Unlike Picasso, however, Dali in the last few decades of his life produced little but kitsch. The perfunctory replays of images from his inventive youth -- the burning giraffes, androgynous St. Johns of the Cross and nudes with chewing-gum hips -- were printed in tens of thousands of "rare" or limited...