Word: waved
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Improved Government policies can only make a start on solving the trade dilemma. What is needed is a change in national direction. Long ago, Henry Ford lost his appeal as a role model, and interest in manufacturing faded. Services became the wave of the future, and law and investment banking became the prestige careers. America is paying the price for the increasingly unproductive orientation of its top talent...
...cushion consumers, authorities increased existing subsidies for many workers, supplementing their income without officially raising wages. Then in mid-August the Politburo announced that it would proceed with further commodity "floats," allowing the markets to set price levels for a majority of products. The result was a wave of panic buying and bank runs the likes of which China had not seen since prerevolutionary days. According to figures released two weeks ago, retail sales nationwide have leaped; they were 40% higher this August than last...
Bebchick's goal sparked the Crimson's performance and for the rest of the show, Harvard's lines flowed as smoothly as the wave among the spectators at Blodgett...
Perhaps the threat of Harvard's decline portrayed by U.S. News was enough to send a little shock-wave through the administration and send it back to the business of being number...
...Jamaicans holding their heads high while across the world their island was being laid waste by Hurricane Gilbert. They continue at the Han River festival, where an American pulls off a major upset in an ineffable local version of bingo, in an area in which ruddy-faced stallkeepers wave customers toward pungent wild-boar barbecues, and the only signs in English say DRAFT BEER. And they reach their climax at the buffet breakfast in the Intercontinental Hotel, where they catch a glimpse of Florence Griffith Joyner spooning down her cereal (the Breakfast of Champions, no doubt...