Word: roughed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...told, it was another rough week for the already battered U.S. economy. Even as the prime interest rate was inching down toward 15%, the Treasury Department announced that it would need to borrow nearly $100 billion in the last half of 1982, an escalation it had not foreseen only three months ago. That competition for limited available capital is likely to keep interest rates high. The latest economic indicators, which for two straight months had pointed toward a possible recovery, turned ominously flat. Worse yet, the painfully constructed underpinnings of Ronald Reagan's fragile 1983 bipartisan budget deal were...
...simplicity with, as Neutra put it, "soul-refreshing" variations. His style and convictions were strong enough to adapt themselves to the residents, the climates and particularly the landscapes of his projects. The Nesbitt House in Los Angeles (1942), for instance, has a decidedly rustic ambience. The vigorous textures of rough brick and redwood board and batten predominate. The hard, angular lines of the Kaufmann House in Palm Springs (1946) deliberately contrast with nature. The spindly steel columns, fragile-looking window walls and beams that poke freely into the air are a reinterpretation of classic Japanese architecture...
These elements of design and interpretation combine to create a thoroughly successful performance. With very few rough spots. The Pillars of Society should give an audience relief from the city's heat, at least for one evening...
...standards of any democracy, let alone the rough and tumble of British politics, it was an unusual way to pick a leader. Rather than leave the choice to its 30 Members of Parliament, the new Social Democratic Party mailed ballots to each of the 62,372 people who had paid $19 a year to join the party. To the surprise of pundits and pollsters, the final tally last week handed victory not to the underdog who had pressed for the ballot by mail but to the elder statesman who would no doubt have been the first choice of M.P.s...
That kind of morality does not sit well with the old-line machine politicians in the P.R.I., who also resent the fact that De la Madrid is a technocrat who has always stood above the rough and tumble of local politics. There were rumblings of unrest within the party when De la Madrid's nomination was announced, particularly since the P.R.I.'s then president, Javier Garcia Paniagua, was not informed of the choice beforehand. Nonetheless the tug of party loyalty, along with some selective purges, has apparently got the machine pols into line, although major power struggles...