Word: rigorous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lighting up a cigarette and tearing north on First Avenue. "That's what they use to get the bodies with. I used to have that job. You go in the houses, on the beach, wherever. It's an awful job. You have to straighten them out if rigor mortis has set in, and you put them in a bag. In this job, they're already in boxes...
...devaluing from the first," a move advocated by Michel Jobert, then Foreign Trade Minister. Said Mitterrand: "I felt that he was right. But [Prime Minister Pierre] Mauroy and [Finance Minister Jacques] Delors persuaded me to the contrary." Mitterrand indicated that he wanted to impose a policy of economic "rigor" as early as the spring of 1982. He felt that the "Germans were not ready," an apparent reference to Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's reluctance at the time to undertake a simultaneous revaluation of the mark...
...journalists-was predicting a return to growth in 1983. Honestly, I was lacking in the necessary elements to determine that we were wrong." Added the President: "I underestimated the role of the lobbies, France's attachment to acquired benefits, corporatism. French people like to hear talk about rigor from those on the right. But as soon as we propose it, we are no longer credible." Mitterrand had some unkind words for tight-money U.S. policies, which he blamed for prolonging the world recession: "It is true that we may have dreamed a little bit in 1981 and underestimated...
...governing direction. As the politicians mulled over the election results and resumed their intricate maneuvering, there seemed to be no realistic alternative to another five-party center-left coalition that may turn out to be as fragile as its predecessors and lack the cohesion to impose the economic rigor the country needs. Inflation is at 16% while unemployment, at 10%, continues an upward march. More urgent is the necessity to slash runaway public spending to reduce a threatening $60 billion 1983 budget deficit. The prospect of a series of weak coalition governments is already stirring speculation about the need...
...American abstract painting. It sounds like a terrible mess, but it does not cook out that way, for two reasons. The first is the strength of Alexander's imagery; the second, his formal control. Since most neoexpressionist painting is given to conventional signs for intensity but lacks formal rigor (a gut pile without shape), Alexander's work repays inspection...