Word: handly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...multiplying that for many Americans the fat times are coming to an end. In their place, economists prophesy everything from a soft landing, which could mean weak growth but little pain, to the ominous prospect of a deep recession. Few seers doubt, however, that a slowdown is at hand. "This has been a long expansion," says Allen Sinai, chief economist of the Boston Company Economic Advisors, a leading consulting firm. "But the spring...
...ticklish task is made even tougher by the failure of the Bush Administration and Congress to rein in a runaway budget deficit that helps keep interest rates high. White House and congressional leaders merely ducked the issue last month in a sleight-of-hand agreement that cut the 1990 deficit to about $100 billion to comply with the Gramm-Rudman law. But a recession could make a mockery of that rosy projection by swelling the red ink to as much as $175 billion. "Using monetary policy to slow the economy is a poor second-best solution," says David Rolley...
Battalion members receive military training from Panama Defense Force instructors, including practice in shooting and hand-to-hand combat. Authorities claim that recruits, who are promised a gun and modest stipend, come mainly from lower middle-class and rural backgrounds. But government critics contend that the squads include convicted criminals released early from jail in exchange for signing up. Members of the Panama Defense Force also reportedly belong; opposition politicians say they have photographs of one man changing from his army fatigues into a Dignity shirt. And diplomats in Panama City insist they have proof that the Battalion member...
There is, of course, plenty of strangeness here: Gould rehearsing a children's choir while crouched in a pew, nothing visible but his hand; Gould serenading the elephants at the Toronto zoo by singing them Mahler at dawn. Yet at play within him was something deeper than mere oddity. Able to read music before he could read words, Gould found he could learn scores most easily while listening simultaneously to TV shows or the roar of a vacuum cleaner. Always, his remarkable gifts were shadowed by a perversity that drove him to torture the works he disliked (notably, most...
...everything around him, he scripted, down to the last pause, his "off-the- cuff" public interviews and devoted himself to a technology that would allow him, he thought, to create perfect pieces of music simply by splicing together flawless passages. His ambition, he once said, was "to try my hand at being a prisoner." He achieved that goal, perhaps, by locking himself more and more inside the echo chamber of his own mind, becoming, in the process, a man possessed, and not only by genius...