Word: central
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only to know the enemy up close. Maybe Hitchcock was right when, to smooth the feathers of one of his stars, he cooed, "It's only a movie, Ingrid." Maybe Fatal Attraction is just a nine-weeks wonder. More likely, though, it will linger in the American central nervous system. A single woman may have to go to the personals column for her next beau. A married man may sit on his lust the next time an attractive woman says, "Hi." And next time he and his wife go out on the town, he'll pick the movie...
Meanwhile, the Administration won at least a symbolic victory in its efforts to persuade West Germany to spur its economy. The standoff between Baker and his West German counterpart, Finance Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg, eased slightly, aided by an announcement from the German central bank that it would cut two of its less important interest rates. If Bonn were to follow up * on that step and reduce its prime interest rates, there would be less pressure on the dollar. Reason: the greenback has been declining because U.S. interest rates have lately been falling in comparison with those of West Germany...
...future progress. So far, there has been an overall advance. The Central American governments still have disagreements, and sometimes we make statements that make it sound as if the whole agreement is going down the drain. But the desire for peace once again wins...
Gorbachev's overall caution reflected the delicate balancing act he must perform to keep the party's conservative and liberal factions in line. Internal party tensions flared up dramatically at an Oct. 21 meeting of the policy-setting Central Committee, details of which subsequently surfaced in the Western press. On that occasion, Moscow Party Leader Boris Yeltsin, 56, a nonvoting member of the Politburo and a close Gorbachev ally, reportedly complained that bureaucratic foot dragging was frustrating his reform efforts in the capital and offered to resign. Politburo Ideologist Yegor Ligachev, 66, a leading conservative who has sought to restrain...
...locals call him el Patron. A tough-talking, leathery native of Indiana, he came to Costa Rica in the early 1960s and carved out his own Central American Xanadu, 40 miles south of the Nicaraguan border. The 1,500-acre ranch where he raises cattle and grows oranges is the centerpiece of six properties he owns or manages. Once a week the modern-day feudal baron and his Costa Rican wife Margarita ride out on horseback to check on the 100 workers in their employ. El Patron also enjoys climbing into his blue-and-white Cessna and taking off from...