Word: roughed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...During eight months in office, the tough-talking Secretary has taken on everyone from students to Congress to the Supreme Court. This time he unloaded against the bilingual learning programs that have cost the Federal Government $1.7 billion in 17 years, calling them "a failed path." He was particularly rough on the policy of giving foreign-language-speaking students schoolwork in their own tongue, rather than teaching them English as quickly as possible. "As fellow citizens, we need a common language," said Bennett. "In the United States, that language is English...
Person 2: "Yeah, dude, I really had it rough. Goddamn Gloria. Too many parties. I couldn't deal...
...Saudi talks with customers focused on a complex "netback price" arrangement, under which sellers effectively charge the market rate for oil rather than the officially posted price. As a rough rule of thumb, the system could net the Saudis $2 to $2.50 less than the established OPEC price of $28 per bbl. While Middle East oilmen could not confirm last week that the Saudis had signed any such agreements, trade sources elsewhere said that the U.S. oil giants Exxon, Mobil and Texaco would buy some crude under the discount system...
...plaintive self-indulgence of "Horse's Neck" is reminiscent in tone of some of Townshend's solo musical efforts. When writing and performing with The Who, Pete comes across as a team-player, a rough-and-tumble rock star who would ringlead the type of debauchery described in "Long Live Rock," in which "someone takes his pants off and the rafters knock" and a "fifty-inch cymbal falls and cuts the lamps...
...venturing beyond the confines of Maoism over the past eight years, Deng's great undertaking has, perhaps predictably, come in for some rough challenges. Disagreement lingers between the reformers, who are experimenting at the very margins of Marxism, and conservatives wedded to Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy and Maoist collectivism. Communes have been abolished, central planning reduced, party and government bureaucrats replaced by technocrats. Deng's innovations, rooted in the premise of "building socialism with Chinese characteristics," have stirred apprehension among China's Old Guard that the Communist Party's dominance could eventually be endangered. How much ideology can a country shed...