Word: roughnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been a rough month for Enrico Berlinguer and his Italian Communist Party. Losing ground for the first time since World War II, the P.C.I, saw its popular vote slip by 4% in the June 3 general elections; a week later the party dropped another 750,000 votes in elections for the new European Parliament. The downward trend continued last week in Berlinguer's native Sardinia, where the party polled less than 30% in a regional election. Stunned by these setbacks, the Communists are entering a phase of soul searching and reappraisal...
...Carter, who has had no face-to-face dealings with Soviet officials except for brief meetings in Washington with Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin. Still, the Administration carefully played down the benefits of personal diplomacy. Said a Carter adviser: "Personal relations do little but smooth rough edges. What is important are binding agreements." Beyond the signing of SALT II, agreements between the two nations were not on the agenda at Vienna. Even so, the fact that Carter and Brezhnev exchanged views on the issues that divide East and West constituted progress...
...create a small hole in the throat for breathing. But talking is another matter. Some people can learn to gulp air through the mouth, force it down the esophagus, or gullet, instead of the windpipe, and literally burp it back up into a cavity called the pharynx, where a rough facsimile of the natural voice is produced. But like all too many throat cancer patients, Parello was never able to master such esophageal speech. "I just couldn't do it," she recalls. "My children learned to understand me by lip reading. My husband couldn't understand...
...take charge and run something, Harvard Business School graduates are walking into prestigious jobs with starting salaries averaging $25,000 a year. Applications to Harvard's Law School fell 7 per cent this year, and Business School applications rose 11 per cent. Few would say the times are rough at the Business School...
While the gasoline shortage and the economic slowdown have hurt sales for all the automakers, times have been particularly rough for the weakest of the Big Three, Chrysler Corp. After the company lost an unexpectedly large $53.8 million for the first quarter, Group Vice President Harold Sperlich admitted, "You cannot stand too many quarters like that and keep the company afloat." Some Wall Street analysts expect that 1979 losses will top last year's $204.6 million...