Word: harshly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...became the first foreign leader to hold a face-to-face meeting with the new President, the 2 1/2-hour session was as mild as Washington's 60 degrees F February weather. Gone were the threats of a trade war. Absent too was much of the anger that provided a harsh overtone for recent U.S.-Japanese summits. In their place was the hope, albeit still as fragile as a cherry blossom, for an era of growing harmony between the two countries that together represent almost half the non-Communist world's economic output...
...willing to negotiate with Ortega at a future date. Opposition leaders, for their part, were disappointed by the government's failure to address political issues that would guarantee democratic reforms. The Sandinistas, Insisting that their adoption of traditional economics implied no shift from revolutionary politics, are betting that their harsh measures can bring long-term economic viability to their regime...
Casting the First Stone Dept.: Newsweek had some harsh words for "trash t.v." shows such as "Geraldo," "A Current Affair" and "The Morton Downey, Jr. Show." According to Newsweek, they are "sleazy," "dirt," and "trash-masters" which "Shock 'em to attention....Deliver a visceral rush by playing to [the viewers'] most primitive fascinations...
Political solutions are not uppermost in the minds of most of the 2.2 million residents of Kabul. They are worrying about day-to-day survival. The winter has been unusually harsh. With the exception of the Salang Highway, roads into the city are cut, resulting in shortages of bread, diesel fuel, sugar, kerosene and other basics; electricity is available only part of the time. The Kabul grain silo, which usually holds a stock of 20,000 tons, has been empty at several points in the past few weeks. The poor are especially vulnerable because they cannot afford to shop...
Would he really attack inflation, high interest rates and unemployment? Reagan rammed through Congress his radical tax-reduction scheme and some curbs on domestic spending. Just as important, he supported the harsh restraints already being applied by the Federal Reserve Board under Paul Volcker. Inflation succumbed, at last, to the thumbscrew treatment after Reagan waited out the most severe recession since the 1930s. This painful therapy, together with the borrowing binge required to finance the budget and trade deficits, produced the economic expansion now in its seventh year. Today, with unemployment at a 14-year low of 5.3% and inflation...