Word: breaking
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...idea, but he never could have carried them out without Soviet help. And there is no doubt that the Soviet economic embrace sharply limits any aspirations to independence that Castro might have In the late '60s, Havana was getting restive: unlike other Soviet clients it refused to break relations with Israel after the Six-Day War of 1967; it continued to trade with Franco's Spain and sharply criticized some Soviet policies in Latin America. In early 1968, Moscow retaliated by delaying some oil shipments to Cuba. By no coincidence, Castro then went on Cuban television to endorse...
...directions. While inflation continues to roar along at an annual rate of 13%, the clouds of recession are fast gathering. Tight fiscal and monetary policies that can curb inflation may aggravate unemployment. "Poor Carter," said an aide. "He can't even get the timing of the recession to break in his favor. If the economy were really going soft now, he would solve it with some stimulus this fall and the recession might be over by spring. Instead of that, the recession will hit with full force in late fall and winter, and he'll move to stimulate...
Though most of the school's students are young or middle-aged people who want to break away from urban life, more older people are beginning to sign up. Hennin had hoped for a higher proportion of applicants with low incomes, but poor people seem to believe they do not have the time or the money to build a house. Pat disagrees: "Many poor and working people buy a trailer for $18,000, and spend a fortune heating it and patching up the rust. For much less, they could have a solid house, a good investment...
...result is not chills, but an uncontrollable desire to break into laughter, so lacking is the film in properly gothic suspense. Margot Kidder is chipper and pleasant as the puzzled wife resisting her worst suspicions about the demons in her dream house, but she cannot overcome the film's ineptitude and lethargy. The movie's creators should either have stuck to the facts, ma'am, or they should have invented something to scare the pants off us. As it is, they have managed merely to bore them...
...Scalise is correct in believing that hard work will make or break a team, the Crimson should be playing the Cosmos in the Meadowlands...