Word: downward
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...classic pattern. At one end of society are the rich, whose money buys them opportunities and whose opportunities bring them more money. At the other are the poor, caught in a downward spiral in which nothing, it seems, can come of nothing. College graduate and illiterate cannot find a common language, high liver and low achiever cannot see eye to eye. The northerners scoff at the warm passions and expansiveness of their compatriots to the south, the southerners scorn the icy rationalism and inhibitions of their countrymen to the north...
...nuclear warheads by 34,000 to 26,000. It has long been an assumption of both hawks and doves that even though the Soviets had more land-based missiles, the U.S. led in numbers of warheads. Another report, by outgoing NATO Secretary-General Joseph Luns, revised downward the count of Soviet-bloc divisions ready to fight in Europe from 173 to 115 with a total of 4.5 million troops. (NATO now has 88 divisions, with 2.8 million soldiers.) Reagan last week rebuked a Marine deputy chief of staff for suggesting that U.S. and Soviet strength would...
...parallel talks on Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) to protest the initial deployment of 572 new American Pershing II and cruise missiles in Western Europe. While the problems besetting strategic arms control have been in part a side effect of the impasse in INF and of the downward slide of Soviet-U.S. relations, the strategic talks were never promising in their own right...
...restaurant. Though burdened by debts and the dream of one day owning a country inn, he is, or would like to think he is, upwardly mobile from the streets of Little Italy that formed him. His problem is that his best friend and cousin, Paulie (Eric Roberts), has enough downward mobility for any two inhabitants of the fringe. It's not long before the looniest of his cracked, crooked schemes has them being pursued by both police and Mafia...
...book, however, as Woodward starts detailing the efforts of Belushi's wife and friends to get him to stop his binges, the lack of analysis by the author detracts from the power of the story. Woodward wants to show why they were unable to stop the downward spiral, but he leaves us wondering instead if it was lack of will on Belushi's part, on his friends' part, or simply the hyper-intensive. Hollywood scene that...