Word: worded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...things are so good, then why is there so much nervousness in the air? Why is the dread word recession turning up in more and more conversations? The inescapable fact is that the economy is facing dangerous potholes ahead that could badly jolt the expansion or even bring it to a jarring halt. The dollar has plunged to disturbing lows, and interest rates have recently spiked upward. Inflation may be roaring back: last week the Government reported that in April wholesale prices skyrocketed at an annual rate of 8.9%, the worst monthly performance since October 1985. For the same period...
...keeping Dr. Turco's theory of waning immunity levels under consideration," Postel says. He adds, "Harvard is waiting to get official word on whether or not this is a real thing before we do anything about...
...special privilege to speak at the final commencement of a great leader of American higher education. For over 30 years, Ted Hesburgh has taught us all that it means to be an educator in the fullest sense of the word. At a time when so many of us are little more than energetic administrators, Ted has succeeded not only in strengthening Notre Dame academically but in teaching audiences everywhere about the values that matter in our society...
...made arms to Iran that had run into snags in Portugal. That led to some quasi-diplomatic assignments, meeting with Iranian Middleman Manucher Ghorbanifar to hear his proposals for the exchange of U.S. weapons for American hostages (or "boxes," as Ghorbanifar termed them in a particularly repulsive code word) held in Lebanon. In early 1986 Secord was designated, in his words, as "the commercial cutout" to arrange the secret delivery of more weapons from U.S. stockpiles to Iran...
...appearance, but a star who exists according to the self-perpetuating mechanics of stardom." In this grand scheme, his notoriety as a womanizer is of small consequence -- a titillating false trail to keep the gossip press yapping. So is acting, at least in the conventional sense of the word. Performing is something that Beatty, whom Thomson calls a man "doubting and growing querulous . . . at the advisability of the whole pretense," must infrequently and reluctantly do in order to secure a larger, much more complex and devious...