Word: driftings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reserve--but he refuses to tell her anything is wrong, to bring it all out in the open, since his trust and confidence in her has been broken. She frantically tries all the harder to communicate and to please, but her pathetic awkwardness only increases his alienation. They drift further and further apart, till the final separation...
...Drift. Tanaka is not wholly to blame for his inability to bulldoze new paths for Japan. Power in Japan's Cabinet system is largely in the hands of entrenched and often competing ministries over which the Premier has relatively limited control...
Even so, concern about Tanaka's drift is beginning to trickle through the bureaucracies and into the once pro-Tanaka press. Says one Japanese journalist who attended his year-end press conference: "Again and again, whether he was asked about inflation, or land prices or what have you, he would say it was a very difficult problem and that it had to be studied. One didn't get the feeling he knew where he was going...
...past year. On top of this, the country's trade deficit is the biggest since World War II. Sterling has dropped a full 10% in value since it started floating last June; the pound is now worth $2.35. The debasing of the currency is a consequence of the drift that has beset the country since World War II, leaving many of its business leaders defensive and many of its class-conscious workers apathetic, bitter and eager for more pay than their production is worth...
Frank dives in for a look, and the genie stops up the bottle, returns it to the dusty store from which it came, and prepares to entertain the most beautiful girl himself. "In the end," writes Collier wickedly, "some sailors happened to drift into the shop, and, hearing that this bottle contained the most beautiful girl in the world, they bought it up by general subscription of the fo'c'sle. When they unstoppered him at sea and found it was only poor Frank, their disappointment knew no bounds, and they used him with the utmost severity...