Word: thickets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...February 1977 he turned pro and began beating his way through the welterweight thicket on a course Manager Angelo Dundee had carefully laid to the championship. It started with Luis ("the Bull") Vega at the Civic Center in Baltimore. Most boxers start in four-round preliminaries, but Leonard's debut was a six-round main event and a $40,000 payday. It was televised nationally...
...addition to sending out signals that foreign investment is welcome, New Delhi officials are trying to trim the thicket of regulation and bureaucracy that has often thwarted outside businessmen in the past. Firms, for example, can now automatically get government approval to increase their production capacity by up to 33%. Previously, they often had to wait several years for such permission...
...that time of the year again. Some 96 million Americans fuss, cuss and struggle with sheaves of tax forms covered by a barely penetrable typographic thicket. If the amount on line 54 of form 1040 is larger than on line 62, the citizen must pay the balance to help the Federal Government establish justice, ensure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty. Taxes are unavoidable, but is the thicket...
...Administration took its first step in the right direction in December when it engineered a settlement with American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T). For a quarter of a century, the giant conglomerate had been enmeshed in a legislative and judicial thicket, as a 1956 consent decree forbidding AT&T to manufacture and sell data-processing and other high-technology equipment has grown obsolete in a changing market with foreign competition...
...hope to get their children into a traditional prep school like Lake Forest, that may be good advice. But in the past decade private schools have grown bewilderingly diverse. The 1980 Porter Sargent Handbook of Private Schools lists 1,800. Counselors provide a helping hand through the pedagogical thicket, especially to the increasing number of parents who are uneasily exploring for the first time the once snobbish world of prep schools...