Word: curiouser
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...curious coincidence of the rebirth of greed with what President Bush is fond of calling "the longest-lived economic expansion in post-war history," (paid for, not incidentally, by the largest debt in human history) has covered this ethos in a cloak of morality. "Some people may be getting obscenely rich, but at least the country as a whole is benefiting...
...content with their situation. "We might as well have a sign over our door that reads, 'Some of the most unhappy souls in the world come through these portals,' " says Larry Richard, president of Lawgistics, a Philadelphia career-counseling firm for attorneys. "I see lawyers who range from merely curious about their alternatives to those who are seriously depressed and even suicidal." Branches of Lawyers in Transition, a support group that offers seminars and workshops for attorneys who are looking for job alternatives, have proliferated, primarily on the West Coast. Such services, which often include vocational information and testing, range...
Gaspardo is the strongest player. If a one-note character, he is at least energetic. And he has wonderful monologues to deliver. It is curious, though, that in delivering them he occasionally breaks the fourth wall and yells at the audience. As if we haven't suffered enough...
...military government, destroyed all savings and, by restoring the scarcity value of money, ended the barter economy. Eastern Europe suffers from another economic distortion: the incestuous trade patterns that are a legacy of the Stalinist years. Trade under Comecon, the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, was based on a curious reverse mercantilism: the imperial country (the Soviet Union) supplied energy and raw materials that the colonies (the satellites) paid for in manufactured goods. Since the Soviet Union was chronically short of almost everything, it was an undemanding market, providing no incentive for East Europeans to develop products for sophisticated customers...
Thus, in one curious and ironic respect, the Administration is back to square one. It has traded its skepticism about Gorbachev's intentions for pessimism about his chances. That leaves the Administration, at least in its own eyes, still stuck with a dilemma about what prudent American policy should be. The strong inclination remains to wait and see, to test, to keep its powder dry and to be ready for someone other than Mikhail Sergeyevich...