Word: waved
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students need to get together, because ultimately there must be another wave of activists, well-informed Black students to deal with these problems," said Kenneth E. Johnson '85, vice-president of the William J. Seymour Society, a Christian group concerned with the Black poor...
...Even though I am a mercenary, I believe in a soldier's honour, but I'm not a blind follower of causes...I don't wave the Stars and Stripes, but I believe in American society, even through I can see its flaws...
...wave of tourists in some ways resembles the first postwar invasion of Americans arriving in the 1950s; it is beginning to arouse the same kind of carping among Europeans, some of whom can no longer afford the shopping expeditions to the U.S. that they enjoyed a few years ago when the dollar was very low. Foreign travel to the U.S. has declined 10% since...
...latest merger wave has been the largest in U.S. history when measured in dollars. Inflation-adjusted figures in the Council of Economic Advisers' current annual report put the value of corporate combinations at $133 billion in 1984, vs. $112 billion in 1968, the previous peak year. While there were nearly twice as many mergers in 1968, the sizes of the transactions were much smaller...
...their fans around the world, the British Royal Family seems wholly unworthy of the decorum and severity that surrounds its every public move. People simply adore this bunch of misfits, and it's hilarious to watch crowds cheer the Queen's tiny wave, the Queen Mother's vacant smile, and Prince Charles' shyness as the troupe arrives at Ascot tin open carriages each summer...