Word: colonics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...foreign debt more than doubled, from $334 million to $801 million by 1982. Faced with a shrinking tax base and a war that will consume approximately 23% of this year's $9.4 billion national budget, the government has resorted to printing more money, further weakening the battered colon. So far, however, Duarte has resisted devaluation, even though that step would help businessmen win higher prices for their exports. The reason: much of his electoral support comes from organized labor, which fears that a cheaper colon would drive up prices for the working class...
...have not only rhythms that insinuate but lyrics that can touch the conscience with humane political passion. He has been a lawyer for a bank in Panama, a mail boy working for a Latin record company in New York City and one of the main perpetrators, with Trombonist Willie Colon, of Siembra, estimated to be the bestselling salsa album in history. He currently writes short essays on art and politics for the newspaper La Estrella de Panamá; conducts a long-distance collaboration with Gabriel Garcia Márquez on a cycle of songs based on some of the Nobel...
Such portentous clues will no doubt play very well in classrooms and seminars. Teachers can I extract from the novel a long list of I topics for discussion. Scholarly journals should prepare for a host of submitted articles bearing titles punctuated with the obligatory colon ("Art I vs. Life: The Self-Loathing Narrative ill of Wilfred Barclay"). All this freewheeling interpretation in depth may obscure the fact that The Paper Men implies significance through lapses rather than design. The autobiographical touches suggest that Golding wished to settle a few scores with critics and also to satirize the "paper...
...cleaning out areas previously used for storage classroom space expanded from 25 to 30 rooms. One quibble that has arisen about the new look is the colon Shades of purple have replaced the old green and beige While some officials praise the change, President Bok, upon touring the facilities, reportedly sighed and said. Well at least they didn't do it in polka dots...
DIED. Jan Clayton, 66, actress who played the cherubic Tommy Rettig's wholesome, widowed mother on the original Lassie television series (1954-57); of cancer of the colon and related illnesses; in Los Angeles. The star of such Broadway classics as Carousel and Show Boat, Clayton sustained her career despite a number of personal crises: three divorces, the death of her eldest daughter in a 1956 auto accident, and a ten-year bout with alcoholism...