Word: sharpe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...both a brilliant and ruthless politician. He kept his country at peace for twelve years. He launched a huge building program and virtually invented Dominican tourism, now a $90 million industry. But he permitted blatant corruption, and in recent years he allowed the economy, already suffering from a sharp drop in sugar prices, to falter. Of the country's 1.4 million workers, 20% are unemployed...
...unelectable. So they would be likely to turn to a moderate who tilts slightly right -Baggio, for instance. One group of conservative electors made a pilgrimage last week to the quarters of Alfredo Ottaviani, 87, formerly the fearsome head of the Holy Office. Though blind, he has a razor-sharp memory for useful tidbits about various candidates...
Another threat is a U.S. recession, brought on either by inflation or by dollar-propping actions-primarily a sharp boost in interest rates-that will have to be more drastic the longer they are put off. Top administrative aides privately express concern that the U.S. may be faced with a combination of high inflation and serious recession by the time the 1980 election campaign starts gathering momentum...
Racket sports, such as squash and tennis, are prime offenders. In squash it is the confined quarters that often lead to unpremeditated mayhem. But both games involve cutting movement, sharp changes of direction and sudden stops that can cause injuries to knee and ankle. Says Berson: "The knee joint really wasn't designed for these movements." Ankle sprains are common, especially in women whose tendons and ligaments have been stressed by years of wearing high-heeled shoes. Then there are ruptures of the Achilles tendon. In the unconditioned, the unexpected force exerted by rapid movements sometimes causes the tendon...
Promoting justice. Is the church's foremost role to serve the faith or to work for political and economic justice, or some balance between the two? Only weeks after the new Pope takes charge, that issue will be thrown into sharp focus when the Latin American bishops gather at Pueblo, Mexico. Their meeting may produce a dramatic confrontation between go-it-slow churchmen and a restive "liberation" camp that sees opposition to oppression as a Christian duty. A Pope like Argentina's Eduardo Cardinal Pironio, an architect of the progressive bishops' conference of a decade ago, could encourage major initiatives...