Word: karle
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...final preparations for Easterns isn't a time in our taper when we swim our fatest," sophomore Karl Sheer said...
...year later, hidden damage is turning up in many steel-frame buildings that appeared to withstand the Northridge quake. Of 300 buildings inspected, reports Karl Deppe, an assistant chief with the Los Angeles department of building and planning, 100 sustained dangerous cracks, mostly in the welds at building joints, and the other 200 are ``suspicious.'' Many are office buildings in which people are still working, blissfully unaware of any damage. ``Repair has to be done,'' says Deppe. But the potential cost is enormous: anywhere from $750,000 to $2.4 million just to inspect the 500 to 600 joints...
This scene is emblematic of the world portrayed in Karl Taro Greenfeld's Speed Tribes (HarperCollins; 286 pages; $23), a fast and strutting view of a neon-lit capital that might be called Notes from the Tokyo Underground. In place of the kimonoed ladies and the men in gray flannel suits who form so much of our sense of Japan, Greenfeld pulls back the curtain on a much more colorful and disaffected group -- gangsters, good-time girls, gold-toothed bikers and punks. The economic boom of the '80s, in which Japan's assets grew 80% in just four years, produced...
...views on the Administration's new economic plan, he told Clinton . that the plan was dumb and would sink his presidency. Three months later, the Texas Congressman called Hillary Clinton a Marxist. He apologized -- and then promised to restrict his Marxist comparisons of the Clintons to Groucho, not Karl...
...president's decision does boast the backing of many politicians and economists. They contest that economic stability necessarily precedes political stability. While economic problems can provide the impetus for political struggle, as Karl Marx first suggested, President Clinton has forgotten that Marx doesn't apply everywhere...