Word: impromptu
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Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir was also preoccupied with his country's deteriorating economy. Squeezed be tween a record 1983 inflation rate of 200% and a sluggish pace in cost of living pay raises, Israelis are staging impromptu strikes. The country's 4,500 postal workers stayed away from their jobs for three days last week, while 800 Interior Ministry employees walked out on Thursday...
...events that brought Balang to the dramatic impromptu hearing had been both circuitous and frightening. On Dec. 27, he was given a hand-carried letter asking him to report for questioning at the Criminal Investigation Service (CIS). Balang refused. Then, remarkably, the armed bearer of the letter, who claimed to be a CIS officer, offered to take him to see Marcos himself. Again, Balang said no. That night another messenger arrived, saying that a Colonel Diego of the Presidential Security Command wanted...
...German photographic survey of the earth's surface, performed poorly. All of these will have to be reflown on future missions. There were also problems with the effort to create artificial auroras, a simulation of the northern lights. Still, at least some scientific data were salvaged by an impromptu orbital repair. Under detailed guidance from Mission Control, Parker managed to free a jammed tape recorder used to store the results of experiments. His tool: a 69? Phillips screwdriver...
...answers they wanted. In an attempt to force an impromptu interview just outside the clinic featured in the expose, CBS Anchor Dan Rather chased a man, whose identity he did not know, around a parking...
...which Petworth engages. Struggling with Slaka's implacable bureaucracy, he plays an unwitting role in its intrigues and treacheries, despite the best efforts of his fond, exasperated official guide. He falls victim to the local peach brandy (rot'vitti), causing a sensation in a nightclub with an impromptu striptease. He attracts more than the routine attention of the state security police (HOGPo) as well as of most of the women he encounters, from the nymphomaniac wife of a British diplomat to a "magical realist" Slakan novelist who seduces him in a shower, quoting Marx and Freud...