Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Congresswoman Mary Rose Oakar of Ohio tapped into that feeling last Thursday, when she addressed a seminar of working women at a Cleveland junior college. "The excitement and the enthusiasm that we all had for each other in that room was electrifying," she says. "Here we were trying to talk about how women can attain policy-making goals, whether in office or small business or a hospital, and after Mondale's announcement, we knew we could do anything...
...made it all the harder for the utilities to produce cheap power. Finally, recession cut into demand for industrial and residential electricity and left many utilities with too much capacity, even before the completion of then- new generators. During the 1970's, consumer demand rose 7% annually. By 1983, though, the yearly rise had fallen to about 2%. Meanwhile, the stocks of the utilities dropped way off in value, to between a third and a half of what they once were, and Moody's and other rating services have been downgrading the once sterling utility bonds...
...Lebanese Army retook Beirut last week, but not with guns blazing. As the tanks and armored cars rattled through the streets, people peered over bullet-pocked balconies and cheered. Some women tossed rice and rose water at the grinning soldiers. While one brigade pushed through East Beirut, where most of the Christians live, another swept through predominantly Muslim West Beirut, reclaiming neighborhoods that had been controlled by local militias since February. The army units converged on the "green line," the dread boundary splitting the city, and bulldozed its makeshift banks of dirt and rubble. The city's airport...
...Prime Minister Rashid Karami's two-month-old government, but reflected the crucial mediation role played by Syria. Nonetheless, a decade of civil war has left the Lebanese understandably skeptical about the chances for lasting peace. As a headline in Beirut's Daily Star newspaper put it, ROSE WATER, RICE AND RESERVATIONS...
...used by their opponents only to consolidate positions before the next bout of warfare. While President Gemayel has accepted in principle reforms that would give the Muslims a bigger role in running Lebanon, the precise details have yet to be worked out. Unless progress comes quickly, rice and rose water could give way once again to rifles and revenge...