Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paltry $2.5 million in 1968 to its present capitalization of more than $35 million. De Botton is currently investing heavily in sagging stocks of U.S. energy companies, especially those with large domestic reserves of oil and gas. He also plans to strengthen the firm's venture-capital thrust. Says he: "The U.S. is the prime market hi the world for startup, small and medium-size companies...
...Solidarity member who left Poland last spring to teach at Harvard retained hope that the union could effectively counter the government thrust without bloodshed. "I can only hope that the people will react peacefully to this...but in a decisive way," Stanislaw Baranczak, associate professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, said...
...striking images--images that draw power not so much from their unexpectedness as from the fear and loathing they convey. The LSD-scarred businessman in "Thirty Spot, Fifteen Back on Either Side" stands helpless in the authoritative presence of a "jade-green reporter like a blade of metal grass thrust upright between the harsh lines of the grip's shouting..a hornet prowling the air." As she enters she checks a mirror, "parting her lips roughly with two blood-colored fingernails and revealing her teeth...
...Crimson immediately regained the momentum, though winning three out of the next four races, which thrust them into the lead they held for the rest of the meet...
...post as the charge d'affaires in the U.S. embassy on the Place de la Concorde. Almost immediately, Chapman became aware of a bearded, athletic-looking young man in a black leather jacket who was approaching down the sidewalk. But Chapman sensed no danger until the man thrust his hand into his jacket and started after him. Chapman dodged around his car and ducked for cover as seven shots rang out. Two 7.65-cal. bullets from the gunman's semiautomatic Beretta pistol slammed into the right rear fender of the car, and another hit the right rear side...