Word: shoehorned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sure, we can all breathe a little easier now, but it's little consolation to those of us who have to spend a fair part of our week trying to capture our president-elect on paper and shoehorn him into some snappy piece of graphic satire. Especially those of us who hope to making a living doing this in about half a year's time...
...eliminate the absurdities that now infect the system. Some 85% of East Germany's economy is controlled by 220 unwieldy state Kombinate (conglomerates), whose production has been dictated by ill-conceived five-year plans rather than by supply and demand. Heavy- industry manufacturers, for instance, have had to shoehorn consumer goods into their production lines, so that TuR, East Germany's largest producer of electrical transformers, also makes appliances for melting cheese at home...