Word: unstrung
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...total amount due. About 30 banks, however, have yet to sign the accord, and there are concerns among bankers that the impact of the great quake may lead them to withhold their signatures even longer. "Unless all banks sign," says one U.S. financier, "the whole package could come unstrung." Moreover, Mexican officials estimated last month that they would need about $3 billion in new foreign loans in 1986 to keep economic growth at its current rate of about 3% annually. Banks that were wary then are certain to be even more hesitant in the wake of the tremors...
...spectacle on a grand and staggering scale. Napier's set is a kind of automobile graveyard, but it contains far more than discarded tires, battered wheels and disemboweled body parts. He has constructed a collage of the detritus of contemporary civilization: smeared paper plates, unstrung tennis racquets, old Red Seal Victor records, Drambuie bottles and boxes of Tender Vittles. Every object is outsize, as a cat might...
...walks like an unstrung robot, and his voice seems to come from a retarded answering service...
...crowds leave you unstrung...