Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will not have done him any harm in terms of Australian politics." Hawke's domestic political honeymoon is almost certainly ending. But his world trip allowed him to demonstrate a confidence, intelligence and friendly manner that consistently impressed foreign leaders-and should come in handy in the political rough-and-tumble ahead...
Each immigrant, whether he crossed the Pacific on a 747 or the Rio Grande on a compatriot's shoulders, is bristling with old-fashioned ambitions. Each harbors a plan, or at least the rough vision of a better life. More and more head for the new ethnic metropolis. "Los Angeles," says Rand Corporation Demographer Kevin McCarthy, "has become the natural embarkation point to the U.S. There's no-question that it is the new Ellis Island." L.A. has no central processing facility like Ellis Island, or any Pacific Coast Statue of Liberty, no romantic symbol for every country's immigrants...
Atari has been a victim of rough competition. The robust growth of the video-game industry has drawn so many new entrants that profits are increasingly hard to come by. More than 20 companies are now producing cartridges that play on Atari machines. While about 350 new game titles were released in all of 1982, dealers were inundated with 317 new ones in January of this year alone. Moreover, price cutting is rampant...
...Israeli forces are suffering far higher casualties than the civilian losses of northern Israeli communities before the war, and this creates considerable dissatisfaction back home. Says a State Department official: "Begin is learning the difficulty in a democratic society of waging a prolonged war. When the going gets rough, the home pressure is to pull out." While Begin remains politically secure, he is beginning to feel the sting of Israeli disapproval arising from a problem that has so far defied solution...
...rough-and-tumble of life Reverton had learned to anticipate troublemakers. The place to be trained in what human beings were capable of was a toilet in a public building if you were the custodian who had to clean it up every nighttime. For years Rev had been one of the janitors at the county courthouse up in Way land. He had been let go after the accident, which had incapacitated him for some months ... For reasons of pride, and to justify his carrying the pistol, Rev let the family think him a railroad dick. He did live in Hamburg...