Word: pang
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...matures as a perennial nymph, but she pales beside Snooky von Sickle, the brewery heiress of Wagnerian dimensions with whom Peachum shares many a back seat and shadowy glade. Yet love has its mysteries: when Peachum recalls having made unkind comments about Columbine's "doorbells," he feels a pang of remorse that is followed immediately by a twinge of desire. Peachum's entanglements are due to varying intentions of various d'Amboises. There is, for instance, his lust for Vim d'Amboise's wife Kathy, a Pocock police officer. "But soft," as De Vries might...
...Singapore. From 1975 through 1979, consumer prices in that booming island republic rose by only 3% a year. How was this possible? Through balanced budgets, cautions monetary policy and an enforced saving program that soaks about 30% of the nation's wage bill for capital spending. Explains Economist Pang Eng Fong: "There's a very Confucianist philosophy of government here that saving is good and spending...