Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...promised a "Burmese Way to Socialism" -- a strange mix of Buddhism, socialism and isolationism -- but instead allowed a potentially robust economy to drift on a joyless ride down a Burmese road to ruin. Once Asia's premier rice exporter and a country rich in oil, grain, gems and timber, Burma slipped into abject impoverishment, thanks to haphazard central planning, mismanagement and an unbending policy of self-sufficiency. While resources were devoted to a four-decade struggle with tribal guerrilla armies around the country, annual per capita income sank from $670 in 1960 to $190 in 1987, according to the World...
...bursts of flummoxed intensity. He has played a Texas teenager (The Last Picture Show) and a down-on-his-heels boxer (Fat City), second-string to a big ape (the 1976 King Kong), a gentle lover and a sick slasher (he was both in Jagged Edge). "I like to mix it up as much as possible," says Bridges. "It lowers my boredom level...
Mack maintains that Galilee in Jesus' day was the "epitome of a cross- cultural mix," with Roman and Hellenistic influences colliding with Jewish thought. The cultural upheaval, he argues, gave rise to questioning cynics, rather like the hippies of the '60s. He theorizes that Jesus' message was concerned with a general malaise that afflicted the land. When he spoke of the coming kingdom of God, he was not warning of the apocalypse but, in true Hellenistic fashion, urging more natural and just relationships among people of all social classes...
...rival, Daiwa Securities, has a 12% share of the market. Nomura claims an equally commanding slice of the bond market, 19%, vs. 12% for Daiwa. Nomura and Daiwa, along with Nikko Securities and Yamaichi Securities, are known in Japan as the Big Four. Says a Nomura director, with a mix of arrogance and pride: "It's not really the Big Four. It's Nomura and the Little Three...
...Friday afternoon, Josh's mix-and-match family is in the bleachers at Belmont High watching him play basketball. Sandy shouts loudly at each play Josh makes. Joyce arrives from work at half time. Mary Lou sits with Dana a short distance away. That night she'll drive the kids two hours north for a planned three-day holiday weekend; Dylan will be dropped off in Kennebunk, Me., to spend time with his father. A different parent will bring all three children back to Belmont. Parenthood in the late 20th century: love and logistics and chagrin...