Word: digestibility
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Campaign Issue That Will Not go Away. The Senator himself revived interest in the tragedy with his hesitant answers to questions about it posed by Roger Mudd during the now celebrated CBS interview in November. Last week separate stories in the Washington Star, Reader's Digest and New York Post fanned a new controversy at a critical time: just before the Jan. 21 Democratic caucuses in Iowa that began the process of selecting delegates to the presidential nominating convention in August...
...give the industry time to digest the new moves, Washington suspended all trading in grain futures for two days; never in peacetime had such a move been necessary (see box). When the market did open, grain prices fell as much as the daily limit permitted, but by the weekend they appeared to be stabilizing. Still, Carter's critics charged that the embargo would severely damage the U.S. balance of trade, and that his efforts to soften the blow would seriously increase the inflationary budget deficit...
Caan's character particularly needs more time to digest the loss of his wife. His guilty anger and depression impose terrible requirements of patience on his new love after she has committed herself to the more cheerful persona he originally showed her. Simon, of course, is writing autobiographically here; Marsha Mason, now Mrs. Simon, is playing at least a version of herself in this film. This speaks well of everyone's bravery; Mason's speech accepting the notion that she is worthy of love and encouraging her new husband to embrace a similar self-acceptance is truly...