Word: blue
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this is nonsense. Solutions on undergraduate exams are a closed, finite set. Nobel prizes are not won by reasoning, "if the professor gave us this question, it must be answerable from the material in Chapter 3 and take less than three blue book pages to compute." What is being tested is whether you guessed right and read the chapter on applications that was not assigned or used another book on the side that emphasized applications...
...target of $64 billion but only by using assumptions that call for a quick rebound in economic growth, coupled with a rapid descent of interest rates. Many economists view that combination as highly implausible. While the Administration predicts economic growth of 2.6% in 1990 and 3.3% in 1991, the blue-chip survey of 51 economists puts the figures...
...With his pinched face, his Pillsbury Doughboy silhouette and his air of befuddled skepticism, he looks as if he'd be lucky to land a night manager's job at a 7-Eleven. Moore might even pass for what he is: the novice director of a documentary film about blue- collar unemployment. So why did 2,000 folks stand in line for hours last week in Flint, Mich., to ask him questions, throw verbal brickbats or cheer him on? Why has his movie Roger & Me stoked debate that has spilled from the entertainment pages into the news columns...
...Harvard Yard kiosks may soon be covered with posters asking if anyone knows how to play hockey defense, and Associate Coach Ronn Tomasoni of the Harvard men's hockey team may begin scouting for blue-liners at house intramural games...
...owners work 50 hours a week each, saysFriberg, standing behind blue counters anddispensing the swirled frozen dessert to thecustomers she affectionately calls her "regulars...