Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Smooth Talk...
...thriving cooperative system leaves some 650,000 farm workers relatively free to make business decisions and to absorb losses or pocket gains. Leader Janos Kadar encourages small private ventures, with results that can be seen across the country. Virtually every Hungarian town boasts restaurants with tempting food and smooth service, clothes stores with high- fashion wear and bustling streets filled with numerous shops...
...Smooth though it was, the takeover reminded the rest of the U.S. financial community of the high potential for bank collapses in the Southwest. Conditions for those institutions keep getting worse as the decline of the oil industry spreads to real estate and other investments, creating a cascade of bad loans. Says James McDermott, who studies the region's banks for the investment firm of Keefe, Bruyette and Woods: "The situation is deteriorating, and there is no end in sight to the crisis. Recovery is three to five years away." Indeed, the only gushers in Texas are spouting...
...Smooth Talk...
...rasped, "Come back here." Arrested by her voice, the younger one reluctantly turned around and followed his friend out to face the law. "If you don't pay, you can't ride," she said. The taller boy opened his shiny new Adidas jacket to display a smooth, bare chest. A blonde toddler dressed in overalls with nothing underneath stared interested at the altercation, but no one else noticed the fracas...