Word: morass
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Viet Nam's enduring militarism can also serve as a convenient alibi for the country's economic morass. Since reunification in 1975, the rate of inflation in Hanoi has gone up 100%. In Saigon, the annual inflation rate is a staggering 350%; unemployment is 20%. A combination of bad weather and bureaucratic bungling has left Viet Nam with a succession of crop failures and a 2 million-ton annual shortfall of food. Compared with 1976, last year's paper production was down by 16% and textiles...
...lust and repression: "What I had once seen as the condition of being female, I now saw as female and Southern. I perceived my mother, grandmothers, sister, daughters-and all the women whose roots I shared-as netted in one mutual silken bondage. Together, we were trapped in a morass of Spanish moss, Bible Belt guilt, and the pressures of a patriarchy stronger than in any other part of the country...
...Western Europe and threaten the foundations of democratic societies. With every sign showing that prices in the U.S. will continue soaring even as the nation begins slumping into recession, President Carter, his re-election jeopardized by the economy more than by anything else, is stuck in an economic morass...
...anxiety has a good side, it is that the mood has finally penetrated to Capitol Hill. Congressman after Congressman asserts that letting inflation rage unchecked-and voting against anything that might seem likely to slow it-would be political suicide. The search for a way out of the economic morass has come to focus on a balanced budget, not as a panacea but as an indispensable first step toward getting the economy back under control. Besides, nothing else has seemed to work...