Word: infantes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Orwell's wife died in 1945, during surgery for uterine tumors. The widower was 41, tubercular, and left with an infant son, Richard, recently adopted. Loneliness, the responsibility of a child and the prospect of his own death drove him to propose marriage to a series of flabbergasted women. He wrote one, after two meetings, "You are young and healthy, and you deserve somebody better than me: on the other hand if you don't find such a person, and if you think of yourself as essentially a widow, then you might do worse-i.e., supposing...
Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker calls the U.S. economic recovery, which reached its first birthday this month, "a lusty infant." Ronald Reagan proudly notes that output is "growing faster than even we expected." The rebound has rescued some 2 million Americans from unemployment and given millions more a new feeling of confidence. Families are buying more shirts and sofas, carpets and computers, autos and airline tickets now than they were in the bleak autumn of 1982. Factories are bustling again as companies hurriedly build up inventories to make sure they stay ahead of demand. The Federal Reserve Board reported last...
Despite the growing alarm, Congress rushed to adjourn last week without facing up to the budget dilemma. The consequences of such inaction could be severe. Even if the infant recovery survives, it may grow up deformed, with some parts of the economy performing far worse than others. Onerous interest rates could stall comebacks by the housing and auto industries. The high cost of borrowing money could depress capital spending and thus continue to devastate key business sectors such as steel, construction equipment and machine tools, which have barely begun to climb out of a deep slump...
...Administration has been trying to intervene in the painful private dilemma of a Long Island, N.Y., couple with an incurably ailing child. Last week Federal District Judge Leonard Wexler, a recent Reagan appointee, threw out the U.S. Justice Department's unprecedented suit seeking the hospital records of the infant known as Baby Jane...
...MacLaine) clambering up over the side of her baby's crib and hurling herself on the tot, hysterically convinced that she has only seconds to administer the kiss of life to her darling Emma and save her from crib death. Naturally, all she does is disturb a healthy infant's sleep. From this scene it is obvious that Terms of Endearment is a comedy...