Word: ued
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...characterized American attitudes toward Canada-U.S. relations as something akin to, "You're cute when you're mad, honey," adding that it represented "unconscious imperialism...
...acumen. One tablet records the warehousing of 548,500 measures of barley-enough for 18 million meals. Ebla may also have been the first city in the Near East to supplant bartering with use of gold and silver as currency. The complex government was headed by a king, Malik(u), elected peaceably to a seven-year term. A watchdog senate, the wealthy Ab-bu or "elders," wielded backroom power...
...this regard, Princeton may well be the favorite. Muse's charges lost three times in the last campaign by one goal, prompting an intensive recruiting drive--matched by U Penn and Yale--for the highly touted Uri Fishman, an explosive scorer who played his high school soccer in Connecticut...
...defending co-champions, Pennsylvania and Columbia should crowd the top this year, too. Of the two, Penn will have a more difficult time repeating. The Quakers scored just 19 goals over 15 games last year. Their 9-3-3 final record reflects a dependence on defense. Harvard tied U Penn, 2-2, in Philadelphia...
Residents of Detroit, Buffalo and other Canadian-U.S. border towns have long driven into Canada to buy gasoline at bargain prices, at times 40% less than at home. Lately they have had another reason for crossing the border: interest rates paid by Canadian banks are much higher than those obtainable in the U S A regular passbook savings account in Canada now earns up to 19% interest, while federal law holds U.S. commercial banks to a miserly 5.25%. An account in Canada is even more attractive to an American with large deposits. Banks there pay 19% interest...