Word: toring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moreover, if properly presented to the unions as a reward for continued wage restraint, a tax cut could hold off the threat of another pay explosion. That inflationary threat is very real; last summer the unions tore up their "social contract" with the government and insisted on a return to free collective bargaining. Since then, they have won wage boosts exceeding the government's 10% guideline from some private employers?12% from Ford of Britain, for example. The government has been holding the line on wages for its own employees?who, counting those in nationalized industries, total 7.3 million...
...user in California walked into a house that he had picked at random, killed a baby and stabbed a pregnant woman in the stomach. Under influence of the drug, a man in San Jose, Calif., tore out both his eyes with his bare hands. In the Chicago area, more than a dozen cases of drownings have been attributed to PCP use: victims lose a sense of direction and space and cannot fight their way out of the water...
...terms of military brawn, this year's parade was twice as muscular as the one in 1976, when the Kremlin cut back on the traditional flaunting of military hardware after city officials complained that parading armor tore up the pavement. This time 336 Soviet heavy weapons and mechanized vehicles clattered through Red Square, compared with 151 in 1976. Some of the speeches, too, were steelier. The mighty bash-televised live throughout the Soviet Union-opened with a blunt address by Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov. Standing in subfreezing weather, with his Politburo colleagues, atop Lenin's mausoleum, Ustinov...
...things that were building up inside of me finally let go and I flipped out. I broke into my father's house and stole $400 cash and about $50-100 worth of liquor and I tore the house...
Both prognosticators played high school football but turned to the cerebral side of the game when they came to Harvard. Matthews broke his arm playing high school ball back home in Middlesboro, Kentucky; Zbikowski tore up his knee while serving as captain of his schoolboy 11 in Detroit, and both have become reconciled to playing House football...