Word: fiercer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...areas. Some white backlash was to be expected given the continuing violence in the black townships and South Africa's severe unemployment and recession. In a speech last week to the Foreign Correspondents Association, Botha blamed foreign persecution for intensifying his country's troubles. "The more we reform, the fiercer the international campaign against us," he said. At week's end the government imposed restrictions on press coverage of strikes, riots and other social unrest. Even before the voting, the ever cautious Botha government was trying to deflect right-wing attacks. At a public meeting in Sasolburg, Foreign Minister Roelof...
...struggles in American industry are fiercer than the one now being waged between the Davids and Goliaths of the banking world. As such giants as Citicorp, Chase Manhattan and Bank of America press their campaign for unlimited interstate banking, smaller lenders are fighting back. Last week the Supreme Court dealt the big guys a major blow. In an 8-to-0 vote, the court ruled that local institutions can form regional networks that shut out larger rivals based in other states...
Also, the fiercer the fight gets, the more difficulty the eventual winner may have unifying the party for the fall campaign...
Bizet: On the contrary. Much of what I can find good in this production derives from it. The creature that Carmen has become, for instance-still beguiling, but fiercer and more carnal. The deeper degradation of her simple soldier lover, Don José, through his murders of his officer and Carmen's husband, which do not occur in my work. Even the way Don José's rival, the bullfighter Escamillo, comes to grief instead of triumph...
...struggle over the troubled future of Central America grew fiercer last week. In El Salvador, Marxist guerrillas scored a psychological triumph with a surprise raid on the country's economic heartland; for the first time a U.S. military adviser was wounded. In Honduras, a major display of U.S. military logistics was intended to send an intimidating message to neighboring Nicaragua's Sandinista government. At the same time, the covert border war against the Sandinistas heated up, even though the Marxist leadership seemed more entrenched than ever. Reports from the scenes of battle...