Word: gutting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the high-level meetings, the State Department down-played the notion that some bold stroke was imminent. "The gut issues," said one official, "are not appreciably changed." But that cool appraisal understates the current, critical juncture for U.S. policy toward Central America, in particular El Salvador. Two days after Bush's ultimatum, Salvadoran extremists won worrisome victories: a rightist coalition in the legislature managed to weaken the three-year-old land-reform program, and leftist guerrillas in the field ravaged a U.S.-trained army battalion (25 dead, 45 wounded) in a ten-hour firefight. In Nicaragua, meanwhile...
Nonsense, said Gulfs management, which argued that a royalty trust would increase individual stockholders' tax liabilities and could even depress the market value of the shares. Warned Chairman Lee: "[The Pickens group] is out to gut this corporation...
...slick, heavy beat that is unmistakably contemporary and irresistibly funky. The lyrics make scary references to "100,000 disparus lost in the jails in South America" and "The smell of sex/ The smell of suicide." Undercover of the Night launches two sides of grizzly humor, humid sexuality and gut-level rock. The song titles-Too Much Blood...
...followed by a 70-minute workout on the Nautilus weight-training equipment and a brisk four-mile run. A hundred sit-ups on a steep slant board, then 60 leg lifts, are topped off by 45 minutes of aerobics, propelled by pulse-pounding rock music. A muscle-stretching, gut-wrenching hour of calisthenics is succeeded by a karate class or a lengthy swim...
Buyers from major department stores were wowed by Klein's deep-think. I. Magnin stopped the presses on its Christmas catalogue to include a full page of the line. Says Catherine di Montezemolo, a vice president of Lord & Taylor: "It's a gut feeling, but I don't see how it can miss." In November Lord & Taylor will display the undies in two locations in its Fifth Avenue store: lingerie and the Klein boutique. New York City-based Bloomingdale's is planning to overhaul areas of its intimate-apparel departments to feature the collection. But Vice...