Word: inwards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL decay which substance abuse induces is not just spreading inward from the outer fringes of society, as Reagan would have it. Rather, the decay is also at the core of American society and spreads outward as normal and "productive" Americans regularly consume large amounts of alcohol. Yet Reagan does not attack alcohol abuse with the same gusto as drug abuse...
...motion. Using the radio telescope like a police-radar detector, the astronomers measured the movement within the cloud. "We didn't detect any motion in the outer, cooler regions," reports Wilking. "It was as we probed deeper and deeper that we began to see evidence of gas falling inward...
...increased international aid to spur additional growth in debtor countries. But the Argentine economist warned that the debt burden is not the root cause of the region's economic problems of endemic poverty, inflation and slow growth. Many of those ills are self-inflicted by what Musich called "rigid inward policies," meaning excessive bureaucratization, protectionism and state domination of local economies. Said he: "With or without the debt, Latin American economies would face the necessity of removing these structural impediments...
Peter Dickinson is that rare novelist who is equally at home with the inward stare of psychological fiction and the outward thrust of political commentary. That duality is reflected in two themes that reverberate through most of his books: the impact of a family's guilty past and the doomed meeting of the industrialized and the underdeveloped worlds. Both themes merge, stunningly, in Tefuga, the story of a British journalist's trip to Africa to make a docudrama about his parents--a diplomat and his young artist wife whose well-meant meddling provoked a long-ago international incident. The journalist...
These trips of inward discovery take on apatina of glamor at Harvard, not in the leastbecause students here are much more taken in bythe "Harvard myth" than they would like tobelieve. To freak out in Cambridge is not just tofreak out, it is to freak outsignificantly. Perhaps it's just because Ilike writing that the Harvard-consciousness is sostrong, but I don't think so. I always have thesneaking feeling that I am living out someoneelse's Harvard novel or memoir, or that friendsthink they are somehow acting out the script tothe play of the human condition...