Word: raw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yangtze is a raw, uncontrolled and sometimes destructive river sweeping through China, bringing riches to many but drowning others in its floods. And like the river, change is flooding through the nation. Fortunes are being made in private businesses, but millions of workers who depended totally on their jobs with state enterprises are being laid off. More millions are roaming the country trying to find work. Corruption has become malignant, and environmental damage is off the end of the scale...
Scottie Pippen, of course, prospered under Jordan's tutelage in practice; he had arrived in the league with great but raw natural skills, virtually untutored. He had unusually long arms, a wingspan that exceeded Jordan's and allowed him to play in the backcourt with the quickness of a guard and the reach of a center; as such he had, if anything, even greater potential as a defensive player than Jordan. Nothing in those early years helped him more than playing against Jordan every day in practice, for Jordan was both a teacher and a killer in practice...
Then along came Elvis. His synthesis of black, country and gospel music helped him create a simple, raw performing style. Onstage, he twisted and gyrated, much to the dismay of '50s parents. The more the older folks protested, the more popular the handsome Southerner became. His name was soon a household word. The mere mention of Elvis Presley, as a comedian's punch line, would evoke howls of laughter from an adult audience...
...India, there is nothing obsolete about raw military power. It lost a humiliating war to China in 1962. It sees a palisade of Chinese nuclear missiles aimed at India. It sees China clandestinely supplying Pakistan, India's arch-enemy, with nuclear technology. Hence the bomb: to deter China, intimidate Pakistan and generally assert itself as a great power...
...loud, but the Shubert's poorly-tuned sound system prevent most of the audience from distinguishing what exactly the lyrics to her songs are. In addition, as any Rent fan noticed last year, the elegant ivory-and-gold moulding of the newly-renovated Shubert drag attention away from the raw power of the events occuring onstage...