Word: roughed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What this reveals to the layman is that the Economic Dreamboat that the Administration chartered in 1980 is encountering rough waters, that may imply deeper rifts as the year goes on. Of course those waters have always been choppy. As early as fall 1981, David Stockman, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, also spoke out about holes in the government's economic policy, saying the Administration was hard pressed to translate economic figures into economic reality. "None of us really understands what's going on with all these numbers," Stockman told Washington Post reporter Williams Greider in Greider...
...losing three Olympic-caliber members to graduation, the young and inexperienced Harvard wrestling team figured to have a rough time in the early season...
...imminent walkout. "It is a victory for the alliance and sour grapes for the Soviets," a cheerful State Department official had said. But Andropov's Thanksgiving Day statement came as a disappointment. Insisting, as the Soviet Union has done at every stage of its SS-20 buildup, that a "rough parity continues to exist in Europe" between NATO and Warsaw Pact medium-range missiles, Andropov warned that the U.S. and its allies must bear the consequences of their "myopic" policy. He labeled further participation in the Geneva talks "impossible" and then spelled out planned Soviet military countermeasures...
...Crisis Game's rhythms seemed rough, and the discussions were some times rambling, desultory. But the program was compelling, even significant, because of its striking similarity to what the participants say is the real thing...
...Keith Richards are delighting here in twisting their band's carefully cultivated bad-boy image into a tight knot. All the Way Down takes a typically randy, amoral Stones musical protagonist and sets him up against a woman who is more than just his match. Undercover is a rough-and-tumble reminder that, as Jagger sings in It Must Be Hell, "The strength of darkness still abides...