Word: winded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long ago, in fact, that I was having lunch one fine autumnal afternoon with Donald Trump at the Four Seasons. The beige and russet of his handsomely cut tweed jacket seemed to echo, sartorially, the earth tones in the wind-swept, dying grass outside the window. "I will do anything for money," he confided. "But I must have money--huge, pointlessly huge amounts of it." I still grow nostalgic when I think of that afternoon. Someday, quite soon in fact, his eternal soul will be mine to torture for endless centuries above a pit of burning sulfer...
...which is fine and dandy--it's not like Harvardians don't know that the only reason most people choose to attend southern schools is a pitiable inability to cope with the trials of a New England winter. The Crimson booters have braved Ohiri wind chill all season, and remain undefeated on the year. So let Carolinians and Californians bask in 50-degree weather clear on into February--it just doesn't matter...
...When I first got hit I thought I had just had the wind knocked out of me," said Keller from his home. "But when I caught my breath, I kept going unconscious, and they kept waking me up. That's about all I can remember...
What led to the turmoil? The trouble began in earnest with the Oct. 19 crash on Wall Street, which knocked the wind out of the Mexican stock market. Since Black Monday, the total value of shares on the exchange has plunged by more than 70%, from $38 billion to $11 billion. Says Salvador Kalifa, an economic consultant from the northern city of Monterrey: "Gossip and rumors take precedence over all else. All people want is to get rid of their portfolios." The market collapse made Mexicans nervous about the peso...
...lost business. As the U.S. works to reduce its trade deficit and recapture overseas markets, those restrictions amount to a self-imposed trade barrier the U.S. can scarcely afford. Furthermore, maintains Harvard's Lewis Branscomb, former chief scientist at IBM, the scope of restricted items, from straitjackets to wind tunnels, is unnecessarily broad. "It would be nice to ensure that the Russians didn't learn anything important," he says, "but there's just no way to do that...