Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agreement comes not a moment too soon, because the oil industry may be facing rough times. When the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries failed last week to reach a meaningful pact to curb production, the price of oil futures plunged from $18 per bbl. to $15.58. If prices collapse, at least Pennzoil and Texaco can start putting their resources into the businesses again instead of into the pockets of their lawyers...
...adverse publicity has been rough on Drexel Burnham. For a while after the investigation started, some other investment banks suspended trading with the company, and commercial banks cut back lines of credit. But Joseph insists that business is now as good as ever. Says he: "The investigation made life more difficult for us, but we are stronger for it today." Joseph cannot speak with any assurance, though, until the outcome of Giuliani's probing is known -- one way or the other...
...night across 31 miles of craggy terrain to reach this scorched patch just outside Wukro, a district capital in the province of Tigre. Once again a drought has cursed Tigre, and once again the hungry have come to receive food from relief workers. Family after family moves past the rough wood table to register for the donations. Each supplicant dips a finger in purple dye to ensure that there is no cheating for seconds. "It is worse this year than it was in 1984 and 1985," laments Chief Elder Muboulle Osman, a tall, worried-looking man of about 50. "There...
...list of his materials, apart from paint, would include paper, staples, canvas, rough foil formed by throwing a bucket of molten lead on the canvas and letting it cool there, sand, gold leaf, copper wire, woodcuts and lumps of busted ceramic. It is highly unlikely that more than a few will survive for 50 or even 25 years. Kiefer carries a disregard for the permanence of his materials to such an extreme that the lead will not stay in place and the straw on some canvases is already rotting, though this does not seem to discourage collectors...
...longing for moral examples within nature that is the root of the whole ecology movement) wind back to Wordsworth and his fellow poets, one cannot help feeling reverence at the sight of the manuscripts ranked in their vitrines. How often do you get to see Shelley's rough draft of "Ozymandias" or holograph manuscripts of Keats' "To Autumn," Byron's Don Juan, Burns' "Auld Lang Syne" and Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey" in one room at once? But the curators have also assembled an extraordinary range of paintings, drawings and prints to show what effect the new current of natural vision...