Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...once been viewed as being too gentle to compete in the rough-and-tumble world of Washington bureaucracy. But after chairing three days of public hearings last week on how NASA reached the decision to launch the space shuttle Challenger on its doomed mission, former Secretary of State William Rogers was visibly--and vocally--angry...
...country to reject a feeler: tiny Monaco. When the west African nation of Gabon was sounded out, the response from President Omar Bongo was curt: "We are not a garbage can." Baby Doc would love to stay in France, but the French summarily reject the idea. Stung by his rough treatment, Duvalier declared, "If I had known the only country I feel close to wouldn't welcome me, I would never have given up power...
...Eastern, the sellout is a rough landing after years of financial turbulence. The airline expanded too aggressively in the 1970s, taking on a crippling debt load to buy new aircraft. In the 1980s, fare wars slashed revenues while labor costs had got out of control. The carrier's pilots now , make an average of $112,535 a year, almost twice what Texas Air skippers receive. Eastern has slipped repeatedly into the red, and its comebacks never seem to last. After managing a $73 million profit for the first nine months of last year, the airline lost $67 million...
...come an upsurge of the nice-guy sentimentality once typical of college life. Greeks again serenade a girl who has accepted a fraternity pin from a brother. Corsages, long dresses and black tie are back for dances. Initiation ceremonies, long scorned as juvenile (and now largely cleansed of the rough stuff), are once again emotional experiences, with pledges of fealty by candlelight. On some campuses, Hell Week has been renamed Inspiration Week. Senior Kyle Williamson of the University of Colorado's Sigma Phi Epsilon house, which prides itself a membership of jocks and other square-shouldered types, admits that...
Despite the sullen tone of the three plays, they must, upon reflection, be seen as optimistic. Beckett shows that even in a world that is nihilistic, man cannot bring himself to be a true nihilist. In Rough I, the cripple asks the beggar why he doesn't just do himself in. The beggar replies, "I'm unhappy, but I'm not unhappy enough...