Word: rawe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...familiar from a zillion youth movies: the boy who sneaks out to a teen hop, the school punks who spit out threats, the nice girl our hero flirts with and the even nicer one he winds up with. Lots of wit in the pop-tune lyrics; too much raw-mouthed slurring of women and homosexuals in the dialogue. The difference here is that the filmmakers and the lead actors (including rap artists Kid 'N Play and Full Force) are all middle-class blacks. The script virtually carries warning labels for unwary teens. Drinking is bad; sex without a condom...
Until recently the 52-year-old ruling was rarely invoked by large employers. Companies feared that quality would dip if raw recruits replaced experienced workers and that customers would turn to other suppliers. Moreover, throwing down the gauntlet by replacing strikers might have triggered a wider backlash from unionized suppliers and consumers, or even provoked congressional intervention...
...economically ready to break away. We want to remain linked to the Soviet Union, partly because we need raw materials and energy. But we also want to be closer to a new European confederation...
...distant Czarist outpost. Tadzhikistan had been part of the Great Silk Road, and this trade left its traces in the northern part of our country, which is better off. But without the Soviet Union today we won't advance. Compared with the Baltics, we are a milk cow for raw materials. To build enterprises we need equipment, and where will we get it if we separate...
...reasons for the lawlessness are many, but the root cause is appalling poverty, rubbing raw against conspicuous wealth. The city is broken in half by a mountain range. The Zona Norte is dense, poor and desperately violent. The Zona Sul is laced with fancy apartments, fringed with world-class beaches, home to the rich and the tourists. In between, atop the granite peak of Corcovado, stands the symbol of Rio, a towering statue of Christ, his arms outstretched like a beleaguered mediator trying to keep two street fighters apart...