Word: ironization
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...Soviet Union has drawn its hard-currency reserves so low that many bills for imported goods remain unpaid, which is quickly eroding the country's credit rating. "We're now advising firms to do business here only if they have a letter of credit or some other cast-iron guarantee of payment beforehand," said the commercial attache of a Western embassy in Moscow. No mention of whether there is a charge for that letter of credit...
...closest advisors rule Harvard with an iron hand not only because of their specific policies, but because they have defined the role of the University in the two decades since Saundra Graham--and so many others--called for its reevaluation...
...Rule with an iron hand. Hard-line ideologues argue that visible force and revolutionary spirit are essential to maintain order. They favor reviving old- fashioned sloganeering and mass-action campaigns, like the recent one urging people to "Learn from Lei Feng," a mawkishly selfless soldier who was virtually canonized by Chairman Mao. If stronger medicine is needed to awaken top party and local leaders to the dangers of internal divisions, hard-liners are offering a one-hour video titled Eastern Europe in Turmoil. According to one viewer, the tape is designed "to make local Communist officials realize that...
...cemeteries in France. None of those episodes provoked the torrent of outrage unleashed by the grisly find two weeks ago in a graveyard in Carpentras in southern France. Investigators speculate that four vandals set upon the Jewish burial ground in the hours before dawn, shattering tombstones with sledgehammers and iron bars. The desecraters, who are still unidentified, dragged one woman's body halfway out of her grave. They also exhumed the corpse of an 81-year-old man buried only two weeks earlier and impaled it on an umbrella...
America's most respected drug pushers have flooded the media with advertisements urging smokers and nonsmokers to iron out their differences by talking to each other and respecting each others' "rights." This is ridiculous. Students should not have to apply moral suasion to their smoking peers to get them to comply with the law. Official reprimands and, if necessary, Ad Board discipline are appropriate for those who recklessly endanger the health of their peers...