Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...windshield." At another stop, 200 miles farther along on the fast-food chain, a hopeful French tourist inquires, "Ou est la salade?" Cherie, you are in the land of American fried here. No salad, no apples, no milk. Just mysterious bundles from some hellish central kitchen, lying sodden beneath the infra-red lamps...
...Soviet leaders he had dealt with: "Unlike ((Nikita)) Khrushchev, he has no inferiority complex. He is totally confident, in command, and secure . . . Gorbachev is as tough as ((Leonid)) Brezhnev but better educated, more skillful, more subtle . . . Brezhnev used a meat axe in his negotiations. Gorbachev uses a stiletto. But beneath the velvet glove he always wears there is a steel fist...
...precise cause of the inferno remains a mystery. Initially, word spread that the fire might have started with a carelessly tossed cigarette that ignited trash in a machine room beneath the escalator. But when subway authorities inspected the room, they found it to be, as one said, "clean as a whistle." Other theories looked to the escalator mechanism, which might have produced a spark; or to the prewar wooden stairs, which might have come in contact with a cigarette or other flame. Officials found faults with both explanations. And although they received some telephone calls claiming sabotage, authorities were inclined...
...apparent to the expected 17.5 million visitors to New York this year. The city's jangling geometry is still energizing, the shops tantalizing, the street life mesmerizing. But New York is like the wedding cake in a bakery window: an exquisite excess of spun sugar covering a cardboard core. Beneath Manhattan's sheen is the New York of endemic corruption, failing schools, and racial tensions, a polarized city of 7.3 million where the megarich in stretch limousines look away from the 1.8 million living in poverty, more than 50,000 of them homeless. The city that prides itself on being...
Since then, however, economic woes and regional strife have gradually torn the country apart. While neighboring Hungary and the Soviet Union are moving slowly ahead, Yugoslavia is stumbling backward. Some 1,000 strikes have flared since Belgrade first froze wages in February. The country is staggering beneath nearly 200% inflation, the highest in Europe, and a 15% unemployment rate that only a few European countries exceed. At the same time, Mikulic is desperately trying to finance $19 billion in hard-currency debt. "This is perhaps Yugoslavia's greatest crisis in almost 40 years," said a Western diplomat long resident...