Word: ners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Finance Secretary Jesús Silva Herzog exuded a somewhat forced air of confidence as he addressed his countrymen last week. Like a terminal-ward doctor polishing his bedside man ner, he likened Mexico's economy to a "sick patient" who required different treatments as his condition fluctuated...
...Buenos Aires, the military junta led by President Leopoldo Galtieri defiantly portrayed Argentina as the ultimate win ner of the conflict despite the precarious position of the embattled garrison at Port Stanley. Declared Galtieri: "We will fight for weeks, months or years, but we will never give up sovereignty over the is lands." He seemed to be warning that even if his soldiers were eventually driven off the Falklands, he would wage a long-term war of attrition against the British...
When the Argentine armed forces began massing for an assault, President Ronald Reagan phoned Galtieri for 50 minutes and argued against the use of force, but to no avail. After the Argentine invasion, forward." Reagan said: "I wish it had not gone In Buenos Aires, some 5,000 ban ner-waving supporters gathered in front of the presidential palace to hear Galflies" tieri's over boast the that "the Falklands. But Argentine flag British Prime Minister Thatcher is hearing clamor of a different kind: demands that Britannia return to ruling the waves, at least in one far-off corner...
Chicago Psychiatrist Ner Littner has faith in American balance. Says he: "We have a need to go to extremes, to be impulsive and obsessive. But given a little time, we always become reasonable and exercise what matters-common sense...
...that it has rendered the formal theatrical experience superfluous. Why go to a play or movie to see someone act a part when friends (and strangers) are doing it all around us all the time? One imagines, since Shawn and Gregory wrote this piece in a glumly realistic man ner, and play them selves with shameless conviction, that they intend to demonstrate that a dramatic work can actually be less stagy, more authentic, than life...