Word: roughed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since its grand opening 20 months ago, the Charles Square shopping complex has stumbled over some rough obstacles, some of which are still being smoothed out: four shops have moved out; the mall is situated out of the Harvard Square traffic flow, and some perceive it as overpriced for the college market...
Albania is a small (11,100 sq. mi., pop. 3 million) mountainous country of great beauty. Fewer than 300,000 inhabitants live in Tirane, the capital; 85% of the people reside in towns and villages. Small factories produce such goods as rough textiles, canned foods, glassware and machine parts. The economy is stagnant, in part because of an almost pathological aversion to debt. The constitution outlaws acceptance of foreign credits, thus making Albania's outside trade dependent on barter deals or the cash sale of its exports, which include chromium, oil and agricultural products. The economy is also crippled...
...week siege of Goodyear Tire & Rubber, the Akron manufacturer, after being grilled before the House Subcommittee on Monopolies and Commercial Law in Washington. "My question is: Who the hell are you?" said Ohio Democrat John Seiberling, whose family founded Goodyear. Goldsmith's sharp retort was that he represented the "rough, tough world of competition . . . a world in which you run a business as a business and not as an institution." But the aggressive tycoon, who owned 11.5% of Goodyear's stock and had offered $4.7 billion for the whole company, was in the end bought off by the management, which...
...Defense and by each of the services involved. The Pentagon ends up rejecting many projects that come its way on the grounds that they distort military life and situations. An Officer and a Gentleman, which like Top Gun dealt with naval aviation training, was turned down because of its rough language, steamy sex and, to the military mind, inaccurate view of boot camp. The Pentagon said no to WarGames because the military contends that a teenage computer hacker could never crack the U.S. strategic defense system. Even Rambo's lone-wolf heroics would have failed to pass muster, despite later...
Nonetheless, Ginsberg presents in White Shroud some gems within the political rough. Those gems were formed by the sheer force of Whitman, Williams, and a younger Allen Ginsberg, and they reflect an illuminating vision and a lasting value...