Word: behind
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...executive director of the Plaza, Jonathan Benanav, calls the aesthetic principle behind casinos "sensory bombardment." He puts it this way: "Feel? It feels good to be here. Taste? Well, there are two ways to look at that. No. 1, Trump has great taste. No. 2, we have great food facilities. Touch? You're touching money. You're touching luxury. You're touching the marble. You're touching the granite. You're touching the beautiful brass. You'll see in the suites. We have gold leaf up there...
...dramatic stampede of more than 14,000 East Germans into West Germany last week followed Hungary's decision to grant the refugees passage across its border with Austria. The ensuing crush marked the largest mass exodus from behind the Iron Curtain since the Berlin Wall was erected in 1961. True, the flow was a trickle compared with the hemorrhage of 3 million East Germans to the West between 1949 and 1961. But this time there was the remarkable sight of Hungary bucking its Communist ally to assist the East German refugees in their quest to begin new lives...
Gumption or no, skeptics perceive an Oedipal element behind the enterprise. After joining the small-paper business launched by his father, the younger Ingersoll clashed with him early and often, tried to break free, then forced him out of the partnership in a financial settlement that the elder Ingersoll considered unfair. Thereafter, father and son spoke infrequently. Ingersoll blames the tension largely on his stepmother; at his father's funeral in 1985, the widow and the namesake son held separate receptions...
...fragile to bear the ravages of machinery. So the brunt of cost consciousness falls on the cutters, who invariably take their lumps. They are routinely cheated of some time spent in the fields. They are expected to cut and stack one ton of cane an hour. Those who fall behind are "checked out," deprived of any pay they may have earned that day and sent back to their barracks, which in many cases resemble prison camps. As the ultimate penalty, laggards or troublemakers can always be deported...
...gambling palaces have revived the tourist trade and poured billions into the economy, but behind the glitzy facade is the Inlet, where the razzle- dazzle seems like a bad joke...