Word: facedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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faced potential disaster.
In comic theater, directors are faced with certain temptations. Very few actors, for example, can pull off a good Russian accent, and the cast members of The Good Doctor are not among this elite. If Goldman had dropped the Russian accents, the "Drowned Man" scene, in which David Angel employs...
The jubilation has been made all the more exuberant by the recollection that the paper has repeatedly seemed likely to die. A money loser, the Times was shut down for a year in 1978 and 1979 by striking craft workers, who opposed the installation of modern technology. In October 1980...
On the other hand, the strong dollar has played a key role in dousing inflation. Faced with fierce competition from cheap imports, companies have been forced to cut costs and hold down prices, and workers have had to settle for modest wage hikes. Consumer prices rose at an annual rate...
The episode recalled the early 1980s, when Solidarity, the independent trade union, wielded its strike weapon to extract concessions from Poland's Communist leaders. Faced with a threatened 15-minute nationwide walkout called by the now banned labor organization, the government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski last week postponed planned food...