Word: washing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years. The actual increase: 60,000. > Reagan claimed: The windfall profits tax would cost 1 million bbl. in the U.S. a day in lost production in the first year. The U.S. Government estimate: 100,000 bbl. per day. > Reagan claimed: HEW threatened to cut off funds from a Bellingham, Wash., school because teachers were spanking more boys than girls. The threatened cutoff actually involved a school in Bellevue and concerned unequal athletic facilities as well as disciplinary violations. > Reagan claimed: Americans could "have cheap gasoline again by lifting Government restrictions" on the oil industry. Not even the oil industry would...
Discharged Boeing workers soon dotted the landscape, often having to move elsewhere or accept jobs, when they were available, of much lower rank. Engineers became car-wash jockeys and opened dry-cleaning shops...
...Scores USC 271 Alabama 307 Houston 163 Minnesota 349 Dartmouth 156 Virginia 234 Hawaii 191 Arizona 236 Georgia 131 Tex A&M 119 Ohio State 278.5 Army 141 Duke 181 Colo St. 178 Stanford 158 LSU 112 Tex Tech 87 Wisconsin 231 LaSalle 109 Maryland 169 New Mex 168 Wash 65 Kentucky 60 TCU 59 Purdue 184 Cornell 102 Wake Forest 67 San Dgo St. 117 Oregon 48 Vanderbilt 37 Rice 30 Illinois 175 Columbia 101 Georgia Tech 23 Mich St. 139 Maine 84 Northwstrn 63 Navy...
Occasionally, patients circumvent this problem, more or less, by marrying. Married couples get to move into larger living quarters, full-sized apartments with kitchens and dining rooms. In contrast, Tony's simple square space with wash basin in one corner and bed in another hardly allow room for a lively jitterbug. Still he insists the dormitory is perfectly adequate for his needs, or at least sufficient enough to forestall his planning a wedding in the near future merely to raise his standard of living...
...Patterson, a psychologist at Stanford, who said she had managed to teach a hulking female gorilla named Koko more than 400 signs. According to Patterson, the gifted ape then proceeded to higher linguistic levels by using word combinations to insult her trainers (You nut), compose rhymes (bear hair, squash wash) and invent metaphors (eye hat for mask, finger bracelet for ring...