Word: graining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...force. Meanwhile, North Korea has fallen into arrears on its foreign debt of some $2 billion. The country achieved only about half of the growth called for in its last long-term economic plan (1978-84), and has yet to produce a new one. Both of the last two grain harvests have been substandard, and the daily grain ration in Pyongyang was recently reduced by 14%. Although the exact cause of last week's events remains murky, the forced cutback in such a staple certainly carried the potential for creating trouble...
...York City's Lower East Side, Principal Anthony Barry takes the formal sex-ed curriculum "with a grain of salt": teaching the children of fairly conservative parents, most of them Chinese American and Hispanic, means playing things by ear. Says he: "We want parents to know that we're not undermining what they are trying...
...comedy through the eyes of a vulnerable, naive persona, an innocent commenting on the world, But the real Emo is almost indistinguishable from his comic persona at first. He slips in a joke wherever possible, ponders each answer as though on another planet, and only then lets a small grain of truth slip...
...open the champagne. Lines like this, no matter how heartfelt, become exhausting after a while and beg to be parodied. Still, Leavitt, like Philip, must be taken with a grain of salt. Both 25-year-olds need time to mature, to stop pandering for approval. But they also have much to offer, and their occasional well-meaning lapses can, when viewed with the right attitude, make them all the more endearing...
...Moreover, Daschle's liberalism is not of the knee-jerk variety. He voted against the tax-reform bill, and sounds Midwestern protectionist on trade matters. Says Daschle: "It's time to tell Tokyo, 'If you want us to buy your Toyotas, then you'd better buy our beef and grain...