Word: glimmered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TIME'S story "A Glimmer of Hope in Detroit" [June 14] says that U.S. auto-workers average about $20 an hour in wages and benefits, which is nearly $8 more than their Japanese counterparts. In addition, faulty management techniques, including poor systems of inventory control, give Japanese manufacturers a cost advantage of around...
...concern about high interest rates and unemployment would not be turned aside. Perhaps the most provocative proposal of the ten days on the road was made by French President Francois Mitterrand, who urged the industrial nations to better foresee and harness new technology. Within that idea is a glimmer of the immense reality that the free world can defeat Communism only with economic vitality, not arms...
...sources of glimmer of hope when they [the Administration] look at the Soviet Union and when I look at the Soviet Union are, one, that perhaps there is quite serious concern in the Soviet leadership about what the Reagan program might really look like in the late 1980s and perhaps this is a good reason to negotiate agreements now....The other is, and I know that very few people in the West and in the Soviet Union have a good handle on this, but there is some sense that perhaps the Soviet Union is entering a period of such extraordinary...
...first glimmer of hope came two weeks ago, when the State Department proposed a plan designed to serve as a basis of discussion between the U.S. and Nicaragua. It was a welcome departure from previous policy towards the Central American country. Since the Marxist-oriented Sandinist government replaced Anastasio Somoza's strong-arm dictatorship, Reagan has viewed Nicaragua as the exemplary victim of a new domino theory. Because the Sandinistas proposed Marxist reforms, the Administration reasoned, they were automatically part of the mysterious and sinister Soviet-Cuban network of international terrorism and revolution. The moment a Marxist government gained control...
...murder. As Pepita Passionelle, Wagman expressively plays the emotionally fluctuating role of a neurotic actress. In one scene, she breaks into an uncontrollable hysteria then suddenly reverts to her previous composure. Samuels as Camembert, La Passionelle's husband, portrays the scheming, jealous husband with the proverbial evil, insane glimmer in his eye. Camembert is madly jealous of his wife's affections for La Mole, played by Randolph. Randolph, as the foppish lover, saunters around the stage and monopolizes it with his highly stylized movements. The scenes between La Mole and La Passionelle as they plot to throw a murder charge...