Word: shaded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nowhere have falling prices struck harder than in the oil-rich region around Houston. The city's February unemployment rate reached 10.5%, a shade above the national average for the month and up from only 4.8% just a year ago. Houston office vacancies stand at 20.3%. In Port Arthur, a Gulf coast community that bristles with refineries, February joblessness...
...body, this ghost meets the kindred spirit of his great-grandfather Menenhetet I. The old ghost agrees to guide his descendant out of the necropolis at Memphi, a task that begins with a lesson in the creation of the Egyptian deities. Toward the end of this recitation, the young shade's attention drifts into the eddy of a memory from the sixth year of his corporal life, when he, his parents and great-grandfather spent a night in the presence of the Pharaoh Ramses...
...Administration now seems a shade more willing than in the past to go along with such pressure tactics, if only to get the Salvadoran army its money. Both sides recognize the real possibility that the leftists may not truly want to negotiate at all and that the U.S. cannot force the Salvadoran government to do so. State Department Spokesman John Hughes took an upbeat view of last week's congressional skirmishing. Said he: "This demonstrates a bipartisan consensus that the route to peace in Central America is through democracy and reforms behind a shield of military security...
...especially lucky to have Duvall as his star. Duvall's aging face, a road map of dead ends and dry gulches, can accommodate rage or innocence or any ironic shade in between. As Mac he avoids both melodrama and condescension, finding climaxes in each small step toward rehabilitation, each new responsibility shouldered. With a lot of help from his friends, Duvall makes Tender Mercies the best American movie of the new year...
There is no black and white in EI Salvador. The communists aren't evil, as this Administration maintains. Nor are they, on their own,la solucion. as some liberals contend. But our present action in EI Salvador is of a much darker shade of gray than it need be, U.S. guns continue to take too many Salvadoran lives, our military involvement escalates daily and no progress is being made. In short, the momentum still carries everyone in the wrong direction...