Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ford and his advisers recognize, however, that they have a brutal problem: if the recession continues longer than now expected, they must choose the point at which the terrible costs of a continued downward spiral outweigh the benefits of tempering inflation and dictate some new stimulation (probably tax relief rather than more spending). But that point, in their view, has not come yet, and for a while longer, recession will continue to alter the lives and outlooks of millions of Americans...
...Brutal View. That view reflects a conviction that recession is being caused not just by Government action to stop inflation but by inflation itself. Certainly, one reason for the debacles of the housing and auto industries is that the prices of homes and cars have climbed out of the reach of many consumers...
...monastery have given him his subjects. In almost every instance he has found them to be butterfingered bureaucracies. They show more dedication to preserving the untroubled functioning of their own administrative systems than to doing their job, which is usually supposed to be helping people. What has made these brutal films bearable is that time after time Wiseman has discovered competent, even loving individuals struggling within these systems not only to assert their own humanity but to help society's cripples and victims to maintain theirs...
...first half turned into a war of attrition as each team lost players in brutal scrum battles on a wet and icy turf. Only near the end of the half could fullback Gary Bond break the stalemate by making a winding run that resulted in Harvard's first four points...
Prices were way up, and Britain's economic forecasts were way down. In the drawing rooms of Mayfair and Belgravia, however, the smart set was talking about something considerably more interesting-a mysterious, brutal murder involving a titled family that might have come from a West End thriller...