Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many as 20 percent of all professors show symptoms related to each one of three "stages" of melancholia, Machell says. The first--the so-called "tarnished star" syndrome--affects new professors accustomed to being the doted-upon, high-GPA graduate students with the brightest ideas, now thrown into cold competition with politically-seasoned scholars in large, uncaring institutions. Sound familiar yet, anyone...
...long processional friezes of figures based on a Roman triumph, as in the Stucco Room at Palazzo Te, without monotonously repeating poses and gestures? How do you cram an imagined temple with such an excessive throng of spectators that the Circumcision of Christ looks more like a PEN dinner thrown by Gayfryd Steinberg, and yet keep the action coherent? Virtuosity was in Giulio's nature...
Parodi, in a forum entitled "Latin America's Debt, Mixed Enterprises & Recovery," said that the bust in world oil prices earlier this decade has thrown Ecuador into a financial crisis, making it impossible for it to service its debt...
...Henry B. Gonzalez (D-Tex.), chairman of the committee, did say a gradual reduction in deposit insurance may be considered as part of solving the S&L crisis. But he also said such a proposal "is a very serious matter, not a matter to be thrown out as a trial balloon...
...directorate of the Azerbaijani Popular Front, is seated at a desk in the former schoolhouse that serves as the group's new headquarters. He is listening to an Azerbaijani refugee from Armenia describe how he and his family were expelled from their home last November. "I was thrown from my house, beaten," the man says. "I lived off weeds, anything I could find." As Huseynov shakes his head in anger, the refugee continued, "They want to cut us up like sheep. But we'll burn them first...