Word: fabricated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...better times. The sudden great wealth created social tensions that should be relieved in a less affluent period. "Those times before were not normal," says one Saudi businessman. "They were not real." A longtime British resident offers a similar perspective: "Patterns of life are traditional here, and the entire fabric still fits very well together. The system has been in place for 200 years, and people feel very comfortable with their government and their religion. What alternative has been offered?" Yet that may be too simple. While the Saudis clearly will not swallow all foreign ways whole, they are just...
...taken the drab setting of prison granite and turned it into a three-dimensional playhouse. Like a giant pop-up book, the Tower courtyard springs from the stage and folds out to provide interior scenes. Costumes are generally adequate and occasionally impressive, but snatches of synthetic fabric detract from the Elizabethan feel, and several chorus members seem garbed in get-ups on loan from neighboring centuries...
...could tell you about section leaders, and my theory that they are aliens sent from a hostile planet in order to undermine our nation's social fabric, but I won't. The occasional mutants who conduct my sections are nothing compared to the students who attend them...
Perdue's dealings with hoodlums are detailed, along with dozens of other examples of racketeers' roles in the fabric of American business, in a 1,000- page report released by the commission last week. The document shows how the Mob controls unions and attracts legitimate businessmen, like Perdue, who decide that "doing business with organized crime . . . may provide them with a competitive edge...
...arms race "is ruining our economy and is demoralizing millions of homeless impoverished Americans. We are dangerously weak at the very fabric of our society," she said...