Word: helling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...folk heroes rather than accused felons. But it will take a long time to rebuild Marc Rich's globe-straddling commodities business. Many customers have reportedly shied away, as have some of the firm's skilled traders! Said one departed employee: "This company has gone through hell." Not to mention having just given up nearly $200 million...
...were dumped safely into crushers last week, growers and vintners were in no mood to raise their goblets to Bacchus. Because of a worldwide glut of wine, this year's harvest of nearly 2 million tons of grapes will be far more than needed. "We are in a hell of a bind here," says Earl Rocca, a grower near Fresno. "We're in a grape depression." While consumers are savoring the lowest wine prices in years, some growers are being pushed close to bankruptcy...
...Gilbert Noon, a dour mathematics teacher in his mid-20s, may or may not have got a local Midlands lass in a family way. The truth, after 90 pages of meandering prose, remains unclear, at which point even the author grows bored with his characters: "Let them go to hell...
...factor is immediately evident, so is the metaphysics. Quentin is, after all, having a confessional chat with God as the play begins. John Lee Beatty's set is furnished with the spare elegance of a waiting room in limbo; the back wall suggests an opaque view of the hell one creates with other people. Quentin's inferno has been stoked by his belief that love in its modern forms - friendship, political idealism, familial responsibility, courtly lust - can conquer all. As he discovers in remembered scenes with his dying father, his doting scold of a mother, his colleagues...
...what circumstances-that is to be negotiated." There is a powerful reason for Israel's growing flexibility: last week two more Israeli soldiers were killed and ten wounded by unknown assailants in surprise attacks. "We have only two desires," says a top Foreign Ministry official. "To get the hell out of Lebanon as soon as possible and to assure the safety of our troops...