Word: letup
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Letup in Somalia...
...American public has lately become accustomed to another sort of gaze: the all-embracing, unflinching stare of the pop biographer. Unlike Nancy's, this gaze is without mercy or letup. It can go on for hundreds of pages, unearthing skeletons, resurrecting old grudges, exposing big faults and magnifying little blemishes. Few can survive it with reputation intact...
There was no letup in terror though. Refugees reported that loyalists were executing captured rebels by hanging them from utility poles and the gun barrels of tanks. Insurgents in the north claimed the army had taken 5,000 Kurdish women and children hostage and was threatening to kill them. Tehran maintained that 30 Iraqis who had fled to Iran were the victims of napalm attacks by Saddam's troops...
...annual rate. Last week a barrage of grim statistics underscored the situation. Housing starts fell 13.3% last year, to the lowest level since the 1981-82 recession. Industrial production declined at a rate of 8% during the final quarter of 1990, and the tailspin showed no sign of a letup. Domestic auto sales during the first 10 days of January were more than 31% lower than during the same period a year ago. "Nobody is selling anything. Times couldn't be worse," said Robert Lutz, the blunt-spoken president of Chrysler. "The only people buying are those with...
...Hubble Space Telescope's devolution from Wonder of the Age to Blunder of the Century continued without letup last week. For one thing, the Associated Press reported that Perkin-Elmer Corp., which built the flawed mirror on the telescope, gave a subcontractor backward drawings for part of the telescope's guidance system -- forcing the prime contractor to pay the San Diego-based subcontractor, Composite Optics Inc., to rebuild it. Composite Optics reportedly made a tidy 63% profit...