Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...figure" (Abbott). Adan, he said, made what looked like "a conciliatory gesture," turned his back and walked away. Abbott flew after him, reached over his shoulder and stabbed with such "terrific velocity" that "the hair swung back on the taller figure's head." The sound of the knife thrust, said Larsen, "rings in my ears today." As Adan lay dying, Larsen said, the "taller figure" stood over him and taunted him "very sadistically...
...tentative zone proposal drafted by Reagan intimate Rep. Jack Kemp (R-N.Y.) and Rep. Robert Garcia (D-N.Y.), businesses that deserted marginal economic areas for one of the zones would receive massive tax breaks. Meanwhile, thousands of workers in the business's old neighborhood would be thrust onto unemployment rolls. The zone plan guarantees no new jobs or job training--making it all too easy for businesses to nab giant tax breaks by hiring a few residents of the zone as custodial workers. Indeed, housing and other social service budgets that largely support America's inner cities would...
...main thrust of the bill focuses on innovation rather than basic research, Eskesen said. She added that small businesses would do minor amounts of basic research with the extra money, and she challenged University assertions that business could not or should not carry out such work...
Then things seemed to be changing. The Tigers' farm-grown talent had produced nothing but mediocrity since 1973, but the likes of Alan Trammel, Lou Whitaker, Steve Kemp, Jack Morris and Lance Parrish thrust Detroit's love team near the playoffs. The Lions--guided by the poise of Billy "Silver Streak" Sims, Eric Hipple, Doug English, Al "Bubba" Baker and Freddie Scott--appeared to reach a similar plateau...
...verge of an abyss. The state structure has ceased operating." Solidarity's leaders, he charged, "threaten us with the use of force. They no longer obey the law. Everyone is on strike. They call for confrontation with the Reds. We had to do something before they thrust us into civil war . . . We have to come out of the crisis by ourselves by our hands. History would never forgive us if we failed." And so, he said, "from today, a state of war is declared in Poland...