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1980s - Wikipedia  The 1980s was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1980, and ended .... Soviet war in Afghanistan (19791989)  a war fought between the Soviet Union and the ... Britain emerged victorious and its stance in international affairs and its long decaying ..... Only GM continued with business as usual.
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World War II and the American Home Front - National Park Service  Big business won the lion's share of war contracts and enlarged its ties with the ... military and home front but also to ship needed materials, munitions, and food to the Allies. ... business executives, like other Americans, vividly remembered both the ..... production techniques were used and the government spent some $700...
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Rent-Seeking, Public Choice, and The Prisoner's Dilemma  Thus, the United States Government sends the message that businesses will be ... go bankrupt all the time -- unless, like Chrysler, they have enough political .... The rent comes from the "ownership" of the monopoly market. ... and distribution of goods is attractive because it concentrates its benefits and disperses its costs.
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Jeopary Questions page 1791 - IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE ...  BUSINESS TERMS: It's the boating term used when the government comes to the aid of a "sinking" business, like Chrysler in 1979  SINGERS: In her teens this...
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Ford Asks for Bridge Loan, CEO to Take $1 - CNN.com - Transcripts  Dec 2, 2008 ... And we know for the longer term we're told again and again that it is good to ..... In 1979 Chrysler got a bailout, a government-backed loans to help them. ... So the Ford Motor Company have submitted its business plan to Congress. ... a finger accusingly at the other and say your end of the boat is sinking.
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Auto Bailout Seems Unlikely - The New York Times  Apr 14, 2006 ... As Chrysler was tottering in 1979, President Jimmy Carter and the ... a rescue plan that included $1.5 billion in federal loan guarantees and a package of concessions ... At a news conference in 1980, Mr. Carter justified the government's ... to give tax breaks for car companies' investments in alternative fuel...
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General Aviation Revitalization Act - Wikipedia  The General Aviation Revitalization Act of 1994, also known by its initials GARA, is Public Law ... General aviation aircraft production in the U.S. -- following its 30-year peak in the late .... general aviation aircraft manufacturers (accounting for over half of U.S. ... (except the Cessna 208 Caravan commercial/utility turboprop).
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Liberty Bell 7 Yields Clues to Its Sinking - latimes  Discovery Channel is financing recovery effort. December 12, 1999|MARCIA DUNN | ASSOCIATED PRESS ... The 7-foot Mercury space capsule, pulled from the Atlantic this summer and emptied of 70 gallons of ocean gunk and thousands of...
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Corporate Welfare  They sell their goods to foreign buyers that make the acquisitions with tax dollars .... One role of government is to help ensure a level playing field for people and businesses. ... You get [a bath] every two days or three days, you're lucky." .... went on the corporate-welfare rolls in the 1930s, when the state waived payment of...
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Deep-six | Define Deep-six at Dictionary.com  Deep-six definition, to throw overboard. ... to get rid of; abandon; discard. ... by 1921 (in phrase give (something) the deep six), originally in motorboating slang, ... The American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition ... It was transferred to more general kinds of disposal in the 1940s and gave rise to the...
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old sayings | From The Source  Here's a look at some of them and where they might have come from. ... India would have POSH written by their bookings, standing for port out, starboard home. That way they were housed in the more desirable cabins on the shady side of the ship, ... The hunky part might be from a mid-1800s term, hunkey (meaning...
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THE CHINA SYNDROME PLAYS IN HARRISBURG AND PRIPYAT ...  Aug 26, 2015 ... That would be the inconspicuous seaman who goes all around the sub ... The great meltdown accident at the Three Mile Island Unit 2 in Pennsylvania would seem to have ... If the fuel were denied coolant long enough, perhaps minutes, this ..... It was March 28, 1979, heading toward 4:00 a. m., and the Shift...
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jeopardy/1619_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  YOU AUTO KNOW THIS | In 2004, just in time for spring break, Chrysler introduced a convertible version of this cruisemobile | the P.T. Cruiser. right: Bret. Wrong:.
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Ship christening - Topics  The airbags provide support to the hull of the ship and aid its launching motion .... In 1969, the British monarch Queen Elizabeth II named the ocean liner RMS ...... of a naming ceremony Christening may be used as a synonym for naming as in...
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Chrysler Corp. (DaimlerChrysler) | AdAge Encyclopedia of ...  Sep 15, 2003 ... Mr. Chrysler resigned as president that year, but stayed on as chairman. ... Townsend remained president through 1967, when he became chairman. ... In 1979, Chrysler became the first U.S. corporation to lose more than $1 billion. ... Early in 1992, Dodge introduced the Viper and the Jeep Grand Cherokee...
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Full text of "Report of the Commissioner of Navigation to the ...  We also ask that you: + Make non-commercial use of the files We designed Google .... 5 The above provision came into operation as law July 1, 1886, and it is ...... In looking back over the progress of our merchant shipping, we find that, up to ...... men, while for building iron vessels a considerable outlay in the supply of tools,...
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Lee Iacocca - East Valley Tribune: Business  Mar 30, 2007 ... If a guy is over 25 percent a jerk, he's in trouble, Iacocca said. ... the government-guaranteed loans in 1983, seven years earlier than expected. We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back, he said.
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jeopardy/1556_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  THE NEW YORK TIMES TIMELINE | First word in the Times scoop headline on April 16, 1912; the second word was "sinks" | Titanic. right: Babu. Wrong:.
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Glossary of nautical terms - Wikipedia  This is a partial glossary of nautical terms; some remain current, while many date from the 17th .... Term used to hail a boat or a ship, as "Boat ahoy!" Ahull: 1. lying ... Most marine GPS units have an Anchor Watch alarm capability. Anchorage: A ..... Boom (sailing): A spar attached to the foot of a fore-and-aft sail. Boomer: Slang...
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Landing Ship, Tank - Wikipedia  Landing Ship, Tank (LST), or tank landing ship, is the naval designation for vessels created during World War II to support amphibious operations by carrying vehicles, cargo, and landing troops directly onto an unimproved shore. The first tank landing ships were built to British requirements by converting .... To meet the conflicting requirements of deep draft for ocean travel and...
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Nine Tourism Aspects of Artificial Reefs - Canadian Naval Divers ...  artificial reef program on scuba diving tourism in BCi in 1989 and its .... In any event, we chose simply not to make a proenvironmental argument. ... work in the cleaning and preparation of one of these ships for sinking if we were going to meet .... while the project to sink HMCS Columbia in Campbell River went very well,...