Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shultz's reply was quick, angry and scornful: "No coverup, however brazen or elaborate, can ... absolve the Soviet Union of its responsibility to explain its behavior...
...still come out of it." Yet a hopeful woman, trying to make a go of a not-so-good marriage, is not always a fooL There are those in the field who?like the Ellen Jamesians, the self-mutilating feminists of The World According to Garp?seem too quick to find in wife abuse a confirmation and dramatization of sexism, a bloody cartoon of male oppression...
...hour, she would undergo surgery to remove a lump of scar tissue from her breast. Logan snapped a plastic name band on her wrist, took her seat on a soft, brown leather sofa and began thumbing through a magazine. Hers was not going to be a long stay: a quick (55 minute) visit to the lemon-yellow operating suite, a brief rest in an equally cheerful recovery room, and then on her feet and out the door by 1:30 p.m. "This is much easier than going to a hospital," says Logan, a registered nurse...
...French President's criticism drew a quick retort. White House Spokesman Speakes noted "that Reagan and Mitterrand had exchanged letters twice before the U.S. dispatched its AWACS and F-15 aircraft, though consultation about specific details took place between French and American military officials. Speakes denied that the U.S. had applied "pressure" to France, and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger insisted that the U.S. had sent the AWACS planes only because "the French indicated that they wanted them...
Perhaps not. But the industry's quick recovery masks some underlying troubles. The garment trade, which shipped $19.5 billion worth of women's and children's apparel last year, has never been weaker. Since 1973, at least 600,000 jobs have disappeared, leaving fewer than 1.9 million. Low-wage producers in the Far East and Latin America are gobbling up American markets like a Pac-Man run amuck. Hardest hit among U.S. manufacturers is Manhattan's Seventh Avenue, which has the largest share of domestic apparel sales. It is beset by relatively high labor costs, exorbitant...