Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their dreams on oil revenues, now watch in anguish as those hopes of prosperity evaporate. The repercussions could go well beyond economics as those countries express their resentment toward consuming countries, many of which are rich industrial lands. The crisis could inflame tensions in the Middle East, in particular, where oil revenues have dropped from $237 billion in 1980 to an estimated $110 billion last year. Last week Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, who visited the U.S. to confer with Secretary of State George Shultz, called the oil plunge a threat to peace in the Middle East and urged Western...
...foreign debts, may pick the U.S. as a worthy target. Writing in the current issue of Foreign Affairs, Edward Morse, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, maintains that the oil slump could further taint the attitudes of those countries "toward the West in general, and the U.S. in particular, provoking a likely nationalistic response based on a belief that Western governments somehow engineered the price collapse. It would possibly further fuel Islamic fundamental nationalism in the Persian Gulf...
...piece knits 10 different numbers together--alternately using the whole company, a couple, and an ensemble of male dancers. Although the sharp turns, leaps and skillful hip and rib isolations of the dancers made a powerful visual impression, in particular the vignettes in which male members of the company moved in unison were most successful. Here Ailey created an atmosphere ringed with the electricity and power of their movements. The effect was a mesmerizing tour de force of the men's energy, strength and technical precision...
...Unless you had a particular anchor in Cambridge, you wouldn't decide to come here with such high rents," Hines says. She says that though the amount the city spends on human services--$44 million, including $39 million for health and hospitals--has increased in the last year, the rise represents a five-year trend and cannot be attributed to any major influx of immigrants...
...outdoors is not the only place to which Thursday's marchers will call attention. Most rapes of college age women occur indoors, by men they know. The organizers of this year's march are placing particular emphasis on the frequency of "date" or acquaintance rape, the most common form of rape at Harvard...