Word: lashing
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This week the Malecon belongs to the balseros. But the weather is not on their side. Juan, 20, stands knee-deep in the swelling surf. Despite cheers from the crowd above, he is finding it impossible to lash his inner tubes to the plywood he hopes will bear him away. The waves are too high; lightning flashes and a pelting rain begins. Does it matter whether he ends up in Miami or only Guantanamo? "Who cares?" he asks. "So long as it's out of here." He has no job, no money, no prospects, he says; he must escape...
...North Korea and Cuba both fall, will China be satisfied to rumble on its own, or will it lash out at the world? When Deng dies and Hong Kong is coopted, will it rumble more quickly towards capitalism? The first of the events in the chain has just taken place; what follows will soon unfold...
...involved in such episodes aren't eager to discuss them. But some acknowledge that the prospect of watching lifelong dreams shatter as the military shrinks can make them lash out in rage and frustration. "It stresses you out, but you can't hit the officers," an Army man says. "So you wait till you get home and take it out on her and the kids." Another soldier will only say of his wife that "we abused each other." In fact, the Army survey suggests that spousal abuse usually involves violence by both partners. But women, it notes, are far more...
...layoffs, of course, reflect primarily the downsizing mania of corporations feeling the lash of foreign competition. Their drive to cut costs and raise productivity has other discomforting results too. Companies are raising sales and production largely by working their remaining employees longer hours or at a faster pace. Morgan Stanley figures that 55% of the gain in output during the early stages of past recoveries came from increased productivity -- but for the first three years of this expansion the number...
...Farrakhan: That God is interested in us, that God has heard our moaning and our groaning under the whip and the lash of our oppressors and has now come to see about us. That's the appeal...