Word: jibe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problem in U.S.-Japanese relations is that the two countries have different concepts of how an economy should work. Americans and Europeans continually tell Tokyo that they want "fair" trade, which at its simplest means equal access to the market. The notion carries moral overtones that do not necessarily jibe with the Japanese view of the world. Kyoto University history professor Yuji Aida recently wrote that "the American predisposition to view things in simplistic black-and-white terms is antithetical to our mind-set. Whereas the U.S. was founded by a people convinced of a single, revealed truth, Japan...
...while this may jibe well with the ethos of the Pepsi generation, it's a prositution of Marvell's thought. And while this simplistic distillation may sell cars, it is a corruption to pretend that yuppiedom can claim Marvell as a soulmate...
Second, desk-scribblers can be honest and anonvmous at the same time. While the candid outbursts that frequently appear in graffiti must be repressed in polite company, inhibitions can burst free onto a clean tabletop. A cruel jibe, a private fear, or a happy confession of love finds an appreciative audience in the readers of the desk or bathroom wall--but the author can choose to remain safely unknown...
...point of 1086.57 on July 24. At each sign of a strong economy, the market seemed to drop defiantly. Economists study a myriad of obscure numbers to discern the state of the economy, but millions of Americans just look to the stock market-and what they saw did not jibe with the Administration's cheerleading. If the economy was so healthy, what was wrong with Wall Street...
...about somehow redeeming his brother's death, and put in for a tour in Viet Nam, which was refused. He became a lifer anyway, planning to retire (and buy a horse ranch, he figured) around the turn of the century. But his peripatetic Marine career evidently did not jibe with marriage: the Kimms split...