Word: disquietingly
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...things going? Ask that question, and no two answers will be exactly alike. Behind the replies, however, there is disquiet, a nagging sense that somehow the country has lost its way, that its biblical promise to be a "light to the nations" has dimmed. The recurrent theme is that a nation born of ideals has, in its attempt to survive and flourish, lost its grip on the destiny that made it special; that Israel has become just another nation, flawed and fallible. In kibbutzim and Tel Aviv apartments, army posts and Jerusalem cafes, Israelis echo what one of their best...
That sense of political separation is common among members of the rapidly dwindling middle and upper classes in Nicaragua (pop. 2.9 million). Their feeling of disquiet about the country's future is loudly echoed by the Reagan Administration. In Washington's view, Nicaragua and its four-year-old Sandinista government have emerged as a new and threatening variety of Marxist-Leninist rule on the mainland of the Americas. The Reagan Administration has not hesitated to signal its concern by military means: a fleet of U.S. warships has been conducting "readiness exercises" off Nicaraguan shores, while...
...discussions are as uninhibited as the schedule, then expressions of disquiet can be expected from at least a few of the Western leaders. The chief bone of contention: Reaganomics and stratospheric U.S. budget deficits...
...truth about it may disquiet some. Whatever else television once gave promise of becoming, the Big Money programming of the three commercial networks in down to three staples: entertainment, news and sports. Only in sports has there been much real inventiveness...
Despite the disquiet-even near panic in some sectors-the economy overall is doing surprisingly well in a number of ways. Near record interest rates have hampered growth, but most experts do not foresee anything like a major drop in the economy. To the contrary, after a period of sluggishness, industrial production is expected to rebound sharply. TIME's Board of Economists,* which met last week in New York City, predicted that by the second half of 1982 business would be growing at a robust 4% annual pace. Alice Rivlin, the director of the Congressional Budget Office...