Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Almost daily some story or broadcast is sent out from Iowa that laments the "bleak and frozen landscape." Frozen it is, sometimes as deep as five feet if no snow cover comes to hold in the natural heat. But bleak? Bleak is in the eye of the beholder. Eagles congregate in winter along the Mississippi. Kids whack cans across frozen ponds and belly flop on their sleds down crystalline hills. And on some nights, with moonlight glazing the fields, come the howls of coyotes, a surviving shiver from other centuries when great adventure lay over that uncharted horizon...
Babbitt framed the issue by intervening in a local dispute over whether IBP, a militantly antiunion meat packer with a woeful safety record, should build a plant in Manchester, Iowa. The controversy might seem arcane to outsiders, but IBP symbolizes antiunion trends that arouse deep feelings among Iowa workers. Babbitt won statewide headlines by labeling IBP a "corporate outlaw" and a "monument to everything shabby . . . in the American economy." It was not empty rhetoric, since Babbitt artfully used IBP as a bridge to dramatize his own detailed proposals for employee participation and "workplace democracy." Gephardt has long wooed Iowa union...
Exports are up and imports are down, but the gap between the two is still large enough to keep the U. S. deep in debt. -- Once the hot new investment strategy, portfolio insurance loses popularity and takes part of the blame for Black Monday. -- A glib scam artist nets $10 million and a mail- fraud < charge. -- Digital audiotape is on the way. -- Sony will sell VHS as well as Beta...
That kind of shared attitude is ripe material for satire, and, indeed, the current Britpop scene has its shrewdest, severest critics right at the center of its matte black heart. The Pet Shop Boys mock the scene from the ideal perspective: deep inside. Their inventive synthesizer work makes music so stylized it becomes otherworldly. In the words of one admiring London critic, "They know how to use their computers." The Pet Shop Boys' tunes are inventive and danceable; It Couldn't Happen Here, on their new album Actually, was co-written with the formidable film composer Ennio Morricone. Their lyrics...
...federal property for emergency shelter, then targeted a 134-acre supply center as a likely site. Last week, as the city shivered in unusual 36 degrees weather, the shelter opened with 100 beds, and 100 more will be added in the next few weeks. "I felt a deep concern for people sleeping on the streets," says Pregerson. "It's a disgrace to our whole country...