Word: bravely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is not exactly a novel scenario; the scarier financial writers have been mulling it over for years. But there is something brave about Rollover It undertakes to explain, in dramatic terms, how the international monetary system functions and to speculate on how a monkey wrench could be inserted into the computerized, satellite-linked works by which currency is instantaneously traded round the world. Someone whose most sophisticated investment was a flyer in 1944 war bonds may not be able fully to assess these maneuvers, but it is nice to be asked...
...AGREE with the majority in what they say about Poland. That the brave men and women of Poland must now face new levels of oppression and institutional violence is cause for the deepest sort of concern; the situation shows everything that is wrong with Soviet Russia and the Eastern bloc...
...thing was about. One family meddling in the other's interests." Another McCoy, twice the mayor's age, takes his own backhanded swipe: "Those poor Hatfields, as I understand it, were too easy with their drinking back then. It took away their sense, made 'em too brave." Given the chance, Hatfields abandon impartiality as well. Says Henry D. cheerfully: "Really, the Hatfields won the feud. Devil Anse would have ended it any time. But Randolph McCoy was so irate. . ." Even Dutch, appalled by his ancestors' attack on a McCoy family home in 1888, reminds a visitor...
...people. Little wonder that Nicaraguans who watched their neighbors, their sons, shot in the back for no good reason, who ran off the streets to avoid the ubiquitous National Guard convoys, who saw their priests murdered and their churches desecrated, little wonder that they embraced the ideology of the brave Sandinistas who toppled all that. When everyone knows someone--or, more likely, 25 or 50 someones--who died in the revolution, then everyone has a stake in its success. The same farmer proud of his new collective, eager to fulfill the goals of the uprising, opens Sandino by recalling...
...scene was merely a routine operation at the $18 million flexible manufacturing lab that Yamazaki, Japan's largest maker of machine tools, put into production last week. The computer-controlled plant is the closest thing yet to the peopleless factory that futurologists predict will some day be the brave new world of manufacturing...