Word: roughed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nakasone's long-term strategy may mean that the Japanese economy is in for more rough times before the kinks work themselves out. In campaign speeches the Prime Minister promised to "make it possible for Japan to get set for the upcoming 21st century" by making good relations with his trading partners his No. 1 foreign policy goal. He has acknowledged that Japan's $61.6 billion trade surplus has sparked a worldwide protectionist outcry. He has said repeatedly that the Japanese must try to open Japan's normally inaccessible markets to world goods, though real progress has been slow. "Making...
...chic London call girl, understands this impulse in men and knows how to indulge it to her profit. Well, it's a living. But to George (Bob Hoskins), assigned by a mob boss to be Simone's chauffeur, it seems a living hell. How can she endure these rough hands and tawdry nightdreams? How can she not respond to his courtly Cockney love? Simone does respond, in the only way she knows, by using him. She sends her squire out to play knight, searching the Soho underworld for the girl who will fulfill Simone's fantasies and pry open George...
...insistence that "the earth belongs to the living, not to the dead," and how he wanted that principle applied to eliminating national debts, particularly war debts. But few practitioners of today's politics have read those admonitions. Jefferson contended that one generation, which he meticulously calculated from the rough data available to run about 19 years, should not unreasonably burden its successors. He believed sufficient taxes should be levied to clear the books in that 19-year stretch so that a new generation could face its own problems unencumbered. That pay- as-you-go principle might also be an effective...
...sports fan, the play strikes its highest marks with its hilarious observations of how players in the bullpen wile away many hours waiting to be called in on relief. This activity ranges from scoping girls and playing baseball trivia games to performing practical jokes and rough-housing. Among the funniest moments is when Frito calls Dave Winfield on the bullpen phone and pretends to be a police officer calling about a statuatory rape case involving the Yankee star...
...battle between the Dallas Times Herald and its Big D rival, the Morning News, has been a rough, old-fashioned newspaper war, but last week one side in effect surrendered. The owner of the Times Herald, the Los Angeles-based Times Mirror Co., agreed to sell the paper for $110 million to MediaNews Group, a Woodbury, N.J., holding company with some three dozen small and medium-size papers...