Word: waved
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chester Hickle came back in and offered a stranger a stick and a knife, saying whittling keeps you calm and keeps you out of trouble. The stranger had been reading the newspaper, the Marshall Mountain Wave. Correspondent Sybel Smiley, writing the news from Nubbin Hill, had noted that "we have some very muddy roads again. There isn't any bottom to anywhere now. The sun is trying to shine some, which looks good." Correspondent Rosie Ragland from over at Red Oak reported that "Pearl Davis and I purchased 15 hens from Mary Redman Saturday night." For the record, Ragland...
...response to this wave of political repression, Aprista bases and militants embarked on a spree of violence which included several organized armed revolts. These revolts were unsuccessful, due to both the vacillation and conflicting advice of the Aprista leadership and the limited size of the PAP's bases. The Trujillo "revolution" of July 1932 is the most famous of these Aprista revolts. During the uprising, a large number of military officers were killed. When the revolt was finally quashed by the military, Aprista rebels were massacred en masse. In 1933 Sanchez Cerro was assassinated by an Aprista fanatic and replaced...
...faculty rejected the Council's proposals, however, unleashing a wave of protest that rivaled the upheavals of a year ago. The proposals had emerged from dialogue with a faculty liaison committee appointed by Law School Dean James Vorenberg '49 to stem the tide of unrest after boycotts, demonstrations, and sit-ins locked the campus last spring. For may, their defeat signaled the failure of student efforts to work within established channels, and previously passive students entered the fray...
...Manufacturers Hanover's mountainous pile of Latin American loans that made it a target for rumors. The $6.5 billion that it has extended to the region's four biggest borrowers represents 10% of the bank's total assets. If a wave of defaults by Latin American borrowers were to take place, Manufacturers Hanover would be in a very difficult situation...
...level. Although monthly payments on ARMS can decline when interest rates go down, they are rising and are expected to go higher. Both lenders and Government officials worry out loud about the danger that the strain on families of keeping up with ever higher payments may result in a wave of defaults. One of the critics, House Majority Leader James Wright of Texas, blasts the ARM as "an abomination" that should be completely outlawed...