Word: maw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Other G-7 members, and even some Russians, fear Western aid will largely be wasted, disappearing without a trace into the chaotic, inflationary maw the economy has become -- if not into foreign bank accounts in a vast capital flight reaching between $10 billion and $30 billion a year. The Russian economy "is like a large and deep pool of mud," says a senior British diplomat. "You can toss in anything you like, and it just sinks to the bottom...
...held in London in July. There he could make his pitch in person to the leaders of the countries that could supply the grants, loans and credits he seeks and try to reassure them that the money would be put to good use rather than disappearing into the maw of the chaotic Soviet economy...
...news of his health reached the mother's neighbors, several of them clasped their chests and gave thanks to God. "The baby will never want for someone to look out for him," one of the women told New York Newsday. "He is blessed." It was as though surviving the maw of a trash chute would forever protect him from his own neighborhood...
...time to cut the life-support system leading to the hungry maw of the insurance industry. The insurance companies can't have it both ways: they can't refuse to insure the poor, the old and the sick while simultaneously campaigning to prevent a government program to cover everyone alike. The very meaning of insurance is risk sharing -- the well throwing in their lot with the sick, the young with the old, the affluent with the down-and-out. If private enterprise won't do the job, then let private enterprise...
...Courbet-like solidity. "My soul, like to a ship in a black storm,/ Is driven, I know not whither" -- Vittoria's dying words in John Webster's Jacobean tragedy The White Devil seem to fit this recurrent dream of Ryder's coastal childhood, the boat scudding in the maw of the waves or becalmed, like a floating coffin, on the expectant water...