Word: reels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...World Congress of Sexology in Mexico in December, 1979 included a Symposium on Clitoridectomy. The German Institute for Scientific Films supplied three films, including an eight-minute reel on Excision of Omar-Arab girls in the Sudan. The institute has the highest international status--Harvard scholars are among the collaborators...
...given visas "for whatever length of time they want to stay." The Governor later retracted the notion, saying that procedures for documenting workers would have to be negotiated, with time periods set for each visa. Reagan's traveling entourage included enough clout to make even a Texan reel: former Governor John Connally, Governor Bill Clements, Senator John Tower, former Ambassador Anne Armstrong, and-drawing the biggest cheers-former Dallas Quarterback Roger Staubach. It paid off: at one dinner, Reagan raised $2.5 million for the state party...
Robbins has conceived passage after passage of insights like this, most of them capped off by similes that reel under the weight of overwriting. Unable to resist the opportunity to sneak in a comparison wherever it will or will not fit, Robbins allows himself to write these words: "Leigh-Cheri took a swig from the bottle.... She felt as if she were Saturday night television and there were an orchestra up her nose...
While the Europeans generally hope to suffer only a mild slowing of economic growth, U.S. business continues to reel downward. Initial indicators showed last week that the American economy in the second quarter is declining at roughly an 8% annual rate, the second steepest drop since the Depression and the worst since early 1975, when the nation's business plummeted 9.1%. Labor Secretary Ray Marshall predicted that unemployment could reach 8.5% early in 1981, much higher than the 7.2% peak that the Administration had originally forecast. Housing continued to be one of the economy's weakest sectors...
...fact, Redford plays Murton with quiet aplomb. It is not a particularly demanding role; anyone can look horrified by the abuses at the Arkansas prison. And the abuses reel by in living color: whippings, rapes, tortures and murders, all preparation for the true-to-life discovery of coffins in the prison field...