Word: fathoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Carazo is probably the most unpopular President in the history of Central America's showplace democracy, and the reason is not hard to fathom: the nation's economy is in ruins. Inflation is roaring along at 40% a year (up from 20% in 1980). The unemployment rate is 12%, strikes have broken out, and consumer goods are gradually disappearing from store shelves. In late July, the government was unable to make payments on the $2.6 billion it owes to more than 130 international banks-a hefty $1,180 per capita debt in a land of 2.2 million...
...Ward aimed to use Rodrigo merely as a symbol, such superficial characterization might suffice. But instead, the play tries to fathom his anguished jealousy of the village priest's power over the villagers, an emotion the audience cannot appreciate fully without understanding why this power means so much to Rodrigo. His apparently pointless anger at times even risks belittling the revolutionary cause and the very real tragedies behind...
Ever since Galileo unveiled his first crude optical glass to the elders of Venice in 1609, astronomers have been building bigger and better telescopes. But as they scan the heavens from windswept hilltops, trying to fathom the secrets of the cosmos, nature continually conspires against them...
Capote makes this quotation his centerpiece and turns Jake Pepper into a tragic hero of sorts, a Sam Spade in dungarees and pointy boots. Clues refuse to fall into place for him. Pepper's eminent reason cannot fathom the dementia of Quinn's "nasty mind...
...trying to fathom the man and his times, almost every Carter analyst comes back, both in admiration and in doubt, to the President's religiosity. It bolsters him for the great waves of criticism that pound now at the White House. But it also seduces him and contributes to many of his falterings. He is a believer?in-Bert Lance, his old friend and economic counselor whose banking improprieties forced him from the Office of Management and Budget; in Billy Carter, the kid brother with a good heart who must mean well; in Leonid Brezhnev, who pledged his hope...