Word: dashes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This kind of wonderfulness rolls on and on, these granite slabs shifting and heaving and finally buckling under--for Father, who is broken on the rocks, though others have hopes that fight up and sprout through cracks. Characters dash off onto the ice floes of history--with the stirred-up sureness of manifest destiny or the desperation of an immigrant's flight, of a striker's decision to strike--and whether they come back or float away depends on their understanding of the terrain.J.P.Morgan understands it, or at least keeps himself so entombed in greatness that he can afford...
...latest economic and political crises compounded Nigeria's more chronic problems, which include a notorious degree of corruption-known locally as "dash"-among military and government officials. As one Nigerian newspaper editor recently observed, "If original sin goes back to the Garden of Eden, then Adam must have been a Nigerian." Although Gowon is considered irreproachably honest, he was unable to control the widespread graft that helped prevent equitable distribution of the nation's oil wealth ($8 billion for 1974) to most of the 79 million Nigerians, who must still survive on an average per capita income...
...doesn't have any "real stuff," and as a result some critics had trouble talking about it. One might call them the cookbook critics--their theory is that the secret's in the ingredients. Just as the studios make movies like salad, adding a sprinkle of "love interest," a dash of "violence," a pinch of "fun," so the critics think of "plot" or "action" or "climax" as separate components to be inserted in a movie at will. "Bad language," for example, is a poor allocation, no matter how it's used...
...West Africa it is known as dash, in Latin America as la mordida (the bite), in Italy la bustarella (the little envelope). By whatever name, bribery and associated tactics-outright payoffs to clerks and customs inspectors, "contributions" to political parties, the hiring of government officials as "consultants" -have long been accepted in many countries as the normal, natural way to get any business done. U.S. companies operating overseas must somehow adjust to that atmosphere. But the biggest scandal in American business right now is that too many seem to have become a part...
...looking beyond the track. "Why can't I play fullback?" asks the 6-ft. 5-in. 270-pounder. "I'm bigger and faster than Larry Csonka." He is not kidding. Cat quick, Oldfield regularly defeats the pro tour's women sprinters in a special 30-yd. dash. Last year he turned down a $10,000 bonus offer to play for the New York Stars in the World Football League, but this summer he may try to talk the Miami Dolphins into giving him a shot at Csonka's vacated slot. He also hallucinates about entering...