Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plot. Suffice it to say, reversal builds on reversal, a persistently wacky character arrives on the scene in the shape of, of all things, a Dutch psychic named Helga Tendorp, and things not only go bump in the night--they also scream and menace various characters with blunt objects...
...week's end the potential rightist bloc was beginning to give way in the face of Washington's blunt warnings. Hinting that certain Christian Democrats might be acceptable as future leaders, ARENA and the P.C.N. finally agreed to meet with Duarte's party in talks about the composition of the new government. As the largest single bloc in the assembly, the Christian Democrats still seemed likely to emerge as a major powerbroker. But the rightists insisted that they would not accept Duarte himself in the new national leadership, a decision that both he and his U.S. backers...
From this blunt and colloquial beginning, the piece builds to a Twirlers epiphany of mystic anguish...
...amusing to see the excess verbiage our Government would like to place on cigarette packs warning smokers about the health hazard [March 8]. Why not be blunt? Packages should be labeled WARNING: CIGARETTES CAN KILL...
...cost overruns and sloppy budgeting. Because the Pentagon in effect is able to pay whatever is necessary to obtain a product or service, it forces up prices for civilian industries that compete for the same resources. James Capra, senior economist of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, says with blunt certainty, "Demand from the buildup will mean a higher inflation rate for the next few years than would be the case without...