Word: torrid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Federal Reserve Bank must be going off. Some economists believe that inflation is inevitable when the unemployment rate drops below 6%, because wages rise as the labor market tightens. Average hourly earnings in August rose by 0.5%, bringing wage increases over the past year to 3.6%. Throw in the torrid 4.8% gdp growth in the second quarter of 1996, and you can understand why many Fed watchers are expecting an interest-rate increase at the Fed's next meeting on Sept...
However, Harvard was not going to quickly concede the match. The Crimson quickly tied the match at one when Tseng, continuing his torrid play, dominated Pledger in straight sets...
...highest compliment to a woman--that she acted and thought like a man--just as new Hollywood accepts films with transvestites, men who act and think like women. In the '50s, gayness could be viewed as a social disease (in Tea and Sympathy) or with oblique rapture (in the torrid gaze of Stephen Boyd's Messala at Charlton Heston...
...Horse Whisperer, a romantic yarn in which a Montana cowboy with a mystical gift for communicating with horses has a torrid affair with a British-born magazine editor from New York, caused a stir in publishing and Hollywood circles as soon as the manuscript began circulating last fall. Robert Redford and Disney ponied up $3 million for movie rights; Dell Publishing won North American book rights for $3.15 million; and foreign rights topped $2 million. And that was before Evans had even finished writing the book...
...ball well," said sophomore shortstop Mike Hochanadel, who continued his torrid pace of late with a 2-3 day, "But we were hitting the ball right at people...