Word: curing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...required foreign competitors to enter into "voluntary restraint agreements" aimed at reducing their share of the U.S. market to mid-'70s levels for a period of five years. Nonetheless, many experts doubt that foreign competition was the cause of the steel industry's woes or that protectionism is the cure...
...less ambitious, more conventional sketches contain lines to cherish. Perhaps the signature for the evening is an observation that in a time of national obsession with health, "I worry that we don't have a metaphysical-fitness program." For that lack, Tomlin's show is at least a partial cure. It is a buoying search for signs of intelligent life in the theater...
...fact, it is Sarah's desertion which provides the cure to Macon's existential homesickness. By the time she comes back desiring her old security and admitting that "some things are worse than boring," it is too late. Having been thrust into unfamiliar territory, Macon has been forced to confront his own restlessness. Sitting in a hotel room, the world-weary traveller idly muses on the idea of calling his next book "The Accidental Tourist At Home." At one point, in lonely desperation, he considers faking a coronary just to feel the soothing touch of a human hand. Tyler...
...years behind schedule and roughly $1 billion over its original $324 million budget. The 200 CUP employees and their families in Duchesne live in federal trailer camps and therefore pay no local property taxes. In lieu of tax payments, federal and local officials hit on a way to cure the Duchesne doldrums: Uncle Sam could build a bowling alley...
...have tiptoed around. "The publishers will publish the books we want if we are clear about what we want," says Honig. As the textbook makers considered ways to meet these sterner standards, there was a growing sense among educators that the demands of the big spenders might start to cure the affliction of simplistic books in U.S. classrooms...