Word: flare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...monstrous Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW)--never known for its efficiency--is crushing its education offspring in clammy bureaucratic jaws. The Commissioner of Education--the junior executive version of an education secretary--labors under four layers of bureaucratic waste; if, and when he sends up a flare, it never makes it to the top. It is an all too familiar tale of Washington woe: nobody knows--or cares--who is responsible for what...
This centerfold prose disfigures the novel and makes a few paragraphs indistinguishable from Harold Robbins at the gallop: "When she arrived, the flare of her seductive allure would be in full glow, the meld of her sexuality fired by the challenge of another woman." Fortunately, Kosinski's kinks are a minor portion of Passion Play. The reader who can get past horse-and-lady scenes that bear no relation to International Velvet will be rewarded with passages of great force...
That gloomy forecast reflected Somoza's growing diplomatic isolation as well as his deteriorating military position. The first setback came when the Andean Group (Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Colombia and Venezuela) abandoned its efforts to negotiate a truce in the latest flare-up of the 19-month-old civil war. Instead, the five countries declared that a "state of belligerency" existed in Nicaragua and that they considered the Sandinistas to be "a legitimate army." The declaration was designed to allow the group to supply arms to the rebels without violating international laws against intervention in the internal affairs of another...
...flare-up really began a month ago, when Carter first decided to decontrol oil prices. Kennedy for his part had urged the Administration not to abandon the threat of continued controls until a windfall tax was assured. But Carter had tried that approach last year and been clobbered by the Congress. This time the President figured to decontrol first and throw the responsibility for the tax onto Congress...
Tempers will flare even more in the weeks ahead. Tight supplies have already forced nearly all oil companies to allocate deliveries to their retail outlets on a monthly basis, usually 90% or 95% of what the stations sold during the same month of 1978. Last week Texaco, Sun oil, Union and Exxon tightened their allocations still further, in the case of Exxon to 80% of the 1978 level. Thus, as summer progresses, drivers will find it increasingly difficult to buy gas toward the end of each month as service stations...