Word: graying
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...whole the picture remains dismal. Freedom of movement and expression are sharply limited, as is the right to travel abroad. Internal movement is subject to police surveillance; censorship is ubiquitous. Many East European cities, despite restoration efforts, still present a gray, depressing sight: unpainted buildings, dingy streets, understocked shops. In the Rumanian capital, Bucharest, queues at food stores form at 3:30 a.m., and "energy police" roam the streets to make sure no one is burning more than one 25-watt light bulb at night . Poland is an even worse basket case, plagued by perennial food shortages and a foreign...
Sweeping out of last week's press conference like Errol Flynn in a gray suit, the triumphant Turner embarked on a twelve-block march to his law firm's Madison Avenue office. It seemed almost like a nose-thumbing gesture toward doubters in New York City's media and financial communities. "Hey, it's Ted!" cried star-struck pedestrians. Said one admiring businessman to a colleague: "That guy's got a lot of nerve...
...sideswiped and killed by a car. The official verdict was accidental death; the rumor of suicide arose and persisted. No one will ever know what was on Jarrell's mind during his last moments, but the mature products of a remarkable intelligence are now splendidly available. --By Paul Gray...
...following morning, Reagan summoned all 28 Senate and House budget negotiators for the meeting at the White House where tempers flared. According to Democratic Congressman Thomas Downey of New York, House Budget Committee Chairman William Gray complained to Reagan about a radio address he had delivered criticizing the Democrats' budget proposal as "phony." Said Gray: "Look, it doesn't do either of us any good to describe our plans this way." The President was riled, but he did not actually throw down his pencil until two Senators, Republican Slade Gorton and Democrat Lawton Chiles, started to talk about the need...
...complex. In the view of many advocates, the hope that U.S. investment would spur an economic advance that in turn would undermine apartheid has turned out to be an illusion. "Since the founding of apartheid, there has been tremendous economic growth" in South Africa, says Pennsylvania Democratic Congressman William Gray. "But apartheid is stronger today than it was ten or 15 years...