Word: abound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...average Harvard theater-goer who hears the names Warner and Rauch constantly lumped together, that difference--a very definite one in style and approach--may not be apparent. Superficial similarities do abound. Both Rauch and Warner wince at words like "experimental" and "avant-garde," but one thing is undeniable: Nobody who goes to a production by either of them expects familiar renditions of old favorites, even when the posters promise Romeo and Juliet or Twelfth Night or even Cinderella. There are sure to be challenges--women playing men, men playing women, audience members sitting on stage, actors operating curtains...
...falsehoods abound. At no time were foreign exchange and investment by non-Americans arbitrarily foreclosed. Where is the footnote which cites the relevant Interior Department secretarial order? Another totally unsupported assertion...
Other examples of clandestine aid abound. Honduras' El Aguacate military base, some 60 miles from the Nicaraguan border, is now widely known as the main contra supply depot. The 8,000-ft. airstrip at the base was improved and extended by U.S. Army engineers last year, during the joint U.S.-Honduran military exercise known as Big Pine II. Another helpful installation for the F.D.N. is a sophisticated training base 90 miles southwest of Tegucigalpa, originally built by the U.S. The contras have also made use of Tiger Island, a hush-hush radar station in the Gulf of Fonseca that...
...toughness has helped to slow those tax-protest groups that refuse to file. Cheaters and finaglers still abound; hiding income and dreaming up new evasions and shelters, they will rob the country of $90 billion or more this year. They are still gaining on Egger, but he believes that with more simplification and computerization he can one day hold...
...HOPE RESTS, albeit precariously, with Duarte. True, rumors abound that a Duarte victory would prompt a coup by the extremist parts of the army, who view Duarte as a dyed-in-the-wool Communist. But most sections of the armed forces will move probably regard a Duarte government at the surest way to keep the dollars coming...