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Japanese stock prices plummeted again today amid reports that the United States is demanding an upward revaluation of the yen by between 17 and 25 per cent.
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Japan and the U.S. may join shortly in a project aimed at taking the sting out of typhoons and hurricanes the storms are described as hurricanes on the Atlantic side and typhoons in the Pacific.
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Sparkler. Honeymoons, family outings, golf and tennis holidays... sparklingly spectacular! Discover the Sparkler, favourite of discerning vacationers of America and Europe. All's 5-star spakling, from beach, accomodations, dining, sports to service, service, service. Sparkler! Light up your life!
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black sheep (day, deed, frost) white lie (crow, man) cold war (reason) iron will (fist) gilded youth to gild the pill to sugar the pill the newspaper runs a price explosion international climate crazy policies a beast of a car a dream of a dress
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an ear for music
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U.S. public opinion has always been - against using American flesh and blood - soldiers in any wars. - .
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I differ with you on that point.
a clear line of argument
It was the height of rudeness.
a smooth tongue
the key to a problem
the golden rule
the root of all evil
the foot of a page
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The face of a clock, square root, a stream of words, the head of cabbage, to give oneself airs, the foot of a mountain, the highest glory (the summit of glory), mental outfit (erudition, one's store of knowledge), to fight one's way to the top (to make one's way in life, to make a name of oneself, to make one's name known), falling behind (behind the times, not keeping pace with the times), to know one's onions, to keep abreast of the times, lost sheep (strayed sheep), burning issue (the question of the hour, topical issue, bread and butter issue), cold as marble (as a stone, as ice, as charity, as a cucumber), as plain as the nose on a man's face, as sure as eggs is eggs, as the tree, so the fruit, as welcome as flowers in May, as snug as a bug in a rug.
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when drunk; under the influence of drink
a forgetful (absent-minded) person
the very image of his father; speaking likeness of his father; spitting image of his father
go on a wild chase; you have had it; you may whistle for it
it's no use crying over spilt milk; what's lost is lost; what's done can't be undone
once bitten, twice shy; a burnt child dreads the fire; the scalded cat fears cold water
one's brain (head) is working; (he) is clever
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1. I saw their chief, tall as a rock of ice; his spear, the blasted fir, his shield, the rising moon; he sat on the shore like a cloud of mist on a hill.
2. Miners' leaders yesterday got down to preparing detailed strike plans after the pit bosses had added fuel to mineworkers' bitterness of refusing to add even as much as a penny to their pay offer.
3. Thousands of car workers in central Scotland are poised to take strike action early in the New Year unless their wage demands are met.
4. Typhoon Trix headed out into the Pacific tonight after carving a swathe of destruction through southern and western Japan in which at least 34 people were killed and 95 injured. Weathermen earlier reported the storm heading straight for Tokyo, but it bypassed the capital.
5. Why is the Government dragging its feet on the question of an inquiry into the reports of lead poisoning at the Avonmouth Rio Tinto lead and zinc plant?
6. A meeting of dockers in the Liverpool stadium yesterday pledged full support for the policy decided at the London conference and for the one-day strike.
7. Houseboat and caravan were fast asleep; no drift of smoke, no stir or sound of voices broke the stillness.
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8. The old stones of Parliament looked a little less sombre in yesterday's sunlight as hundreds of small children serenaded arriving MPs with a cry "More nursery schools now!"
9. The European Parliament pointed to the fruits of cooperation...
10. I was on hot coals because you didn't turn up yesterday.
11. What! Haven't you got through that bit of work yet? Well you are a slow coach!
12. As for money: I can guarantee you £3,000 a year. As for your work: you can have a completely free hand.
13. I've had a funny feeling for the last couple of days that things are running downhill around here. No appointments, nothing scheduled.
14....she saw that he was practically toothless. As old as the hills.
15. They did not meet again till the night on which Robert Forestier lost his life.
16. To expect miracles to be performed for our special benefit is beyond the bounds of reason or of hope.
17. It is a dangerous thing for a writer to coin new words.
18. He always has a capable man at his elbow.
19. Love is founded on esteem the only foundation which can make the passion last.
20. Prices have rocketed since the end of the war.
21. Their political horizon has been enlarged.
22. The parliamentary machine works very slowly.
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Excalibur. A legendary watch for day and (k)night. For the man whose time has come. The watch dial gleams with the image of the legendary Excalibur, "Sword in the Stone". Only the noble King Arthur had the power to remove it. And with this mighty feat he became the king of the realm. Excalibur the sword. On a watch for the man who rules his own destiny.
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What I like most about England is the civilized quality of living there, the comfort and convenience of the public transport, the English pubs, and the milk and the newspapers delivered to your door. I still remember roast Angus, and a wine bar in the Strand where we used to go every Wednesday to eat Stilton. There are values which must be preserved if England becomes continental and this is quite likely, when we get our cooking from Paris, our politics from Moscow, and our morals from Cairo. As soon as we stop to cite John Ruskin, to tune Lennon and McCartney, to role-play Shakespeare and to trust in Time, we are the lost nation on the way to nowhere.
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teach-in ( ) pray-in
sit-in (. ) sitters-in
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mini-, midi-, maxi-: miniboom, minicomputer, maxicoat, maxidress; -ship.
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beatniks Beatles briefing Reaganomic
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inauguration Benelux countries
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brown-bagger (. .) , - character assassination , communication gap , , disadvantaged , doublespeak 1) ; 2) double standard 1) ; 2) - educational package Gay liberation (.) " " gerentocratic , (gerent = = manager -f cratic bureaucratic) gogglebox (, .) , "" job-hopper "", , kleptocracy , rap session (. .) shock wave , , , -
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Antiflash, aqualung, to deglamorize, fall-out, hold-up, braintrust, in-crowd, in-depth, midi-skirt, mini-car, mini-cruize, to garage (a car), to orbit (the moon), play-in, paper-back (book), to re-equip, to re-house, self-service, quiz-master, love-in, teach-in, stay-in, to service (a car), ringmanship, gimmick, brain tank, think tank, fact sheet, low profile, high profile, runaways, to jackboot, marginal man, nine-to-fiver, overexposed, sci-fi, upmanship, wheelhorse, work-in, kiss-in, buttinsky, baddie, paytriotism, foodoholic.
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1. Another deterrent to independent action is money, and the average Congressman chooses the line of least resistance.
2. Half the "bag ladies" and 37 per cent of homeless men are mentally ill.
3. Last year, there were nearly 800,000 recorded instances of "autocrime"... in England and Wales, the Home Office reports.
4. The buzzword among the blue-sky researchers of Japan now is bioholonics.
5. The irony of development is that to the extent that it succeeds, the world situation worsens and the dangers of ecocide are increased.
6. There was a dramatic confrontation between one of the dismissed lecturers and the Director.
7. Two weeks ago, any hope of reconciliation between the two sides was finally fractured when the guerrillas skyjacked three jet airliners and held as hostages 430 crewmen and passengers.
8. The Kampuchean authorities have supplied the returnees with food, clothing and other essentials.
9. However, the president's drive toward "deregulation" goes in exactly the opposite direction, proposing to ease restrictions on coal dust and air pollution in general.
10. Natural gas decontrol will have an explosive effect on inflation, while, at the same time, it will rob the economy of billions of dollars of productive capital needed to create jobs.
11. He proposed as a preliminary step in the direction of total disarmament immediate disengagement in Europe.
12. He has the command of language and certainly the understanding. But he lacks the wish of the true political animal to act for effect.
13. Armed skinheads, chanting "Sieg Heil", mounted "a revenge raid" on black people in a London suburb, an Old Bailey jury was told yesterday. Between 30 and 100 white youths, some with their heads shorn almost bald attacked about 100 to 150 black people in a cinema queue in Woolwich.
14. The renewed concern about the brain drain acknowledges the general industrial malaise of which the brain drain is only a symptom; as such, it is useful but nothing very new.
15. The biggest teach-in for London Telephone region engineers is to be launched early next year.
16. It is as though the aged were an alien race to which the young will never belong. Indeed, there is a distinct discrimination against the old that has been called ageism.
17...."When you see the vast majority of your twenty million Negro brothers smothered in air-tight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society... then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait." (Martin Luther King) 18. Speculators... have just begun to appear on the Concourse (an avenue in the Bronx, New York). "They've started to blockbust some buildings here," said an aide to Representative J.H. Scheuer, who represented the area.
