Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...race was neck-and-neck until the two boats hit the unprotected midway stretch, where wind and choppy waters gave the Harvard eight trouble...
...long stretch of low oil prices during the 1980s has discouraged U.S. exploration and consumption. Only 740 drilling rigs were operating in the U.S. / last week, down from 943 a year ago and a far cry from the 4,500 functioning rigs in late 1981. Exxon's spending on domestic drilling dropped nearly two- thirds from 1985 to 1987, to $333 million. Oil experts estimate that prices will have to stabilize at no less than $25 a bbl. to encourage a drilling resurgence in the U.S. Many American oil companies have boosted their exploration overseas, where finding oil typically costs...
Last night, Harvard suffered through a six-minute stretch where it could not score...
...policy toward whole regions (the Middle East, Central America) and such narrow questions as whether the U.S. should help Japan build its own fighter plane rather than buy an American design. But the reviews are going slowly, and the absence of a Pentagon chief to give military input could stretch them out for additional weeks or even months. Meanwhile, the rush of events may not wait. Said a State Department official: "We are going to pay a big price for sticking with Tower...
...half-outdoor lobby. (What would you do with those lovely rugs after a driving rain? Replace them, replies the managing director, smug as a puffin.) To reach their rooms, guests can board a bullet-nosed monorail tram or take a boat along the canal that runs the mile-long stretch of the resort. Crispy captains in white shorts and knee socks pretend to steer, clanging the ship's bell, but the boat is actually guided by wheels running along a 19-in. groove underwater. "Disneyland changed the way people view entertainment," muses Amy Katoh, who is visiting Hawaii from Tokyo...