Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Senate in 1948, one day shy of his 30th birthday. But he was not shy about anything when he arrived on the Hill. Ignoring the tradition that new Senators should listen and learn from their elders, he made his first speech * in defense of the filibuster, and he rose to speak no fewer than 469 times in his freshman year. Throughout his career, he would use the filibuster time and again in efforts to block civil rights legislation...
...with the latest unemployment figures or, even worse, written up in the police blotters of local papers. Dubus may have decided that such wasted lives are America's fault; he may even be right. But the case made by his fiction is far more complex and intriguing. In Rose, a nameless middle-age narrator starts chatting casually about a fellow habitue of Timmy's, a neighborhood bar in a town, once again in Massachusetts, on the Merrimack River. Her name is Rose; she is disheveled, disreputable, and she has a past that she confides to her barfly acquaintance one snowy...
...Rose, by itself, is worth the price of this book; it is the most powerful entry in Dubus' impressive canon. Some decades down the road, enough justification will have cohered to call Rose a classic American story. And it is not, in truth, the product of a last worthless evening but of an artist in full control of his sympathies and skill...
...some acquisition contracts reportedly contain "drop-dead" clauses, which state that the deal is off if the transaction is not completed before year's end. In the midst of this merger activity, takeover speculation has driven up the stocks of some companies. Among them: Goodyear Tire & Rubber, whose shares rose from 34 1/2 on Oct. 1 to 48 1/4 at the end of last week, and the E.F. Hutton Group, which rose from 42 to 51 1/8 during the same period...
...praised the recent increase in trade between the U.S. and China. Trade between the two countries rose from $6.1 billion in 1984 to $7.3 billion in 1985. But Han, whose talk was sponsored in part by the Harvard-Radcliffe Chinese Students Association, said low oil prices and tough American textile quotas limit China's potential for growth...