Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sooner Iran can end the war, the sooner it can begin to recoup economically. Virtually all of the big development projects launched by the Shah have been standing half-finished because of shortages of cash, disputes over frozen assets and squabbles over priorities. Iran managed to sell only 1 million bbl. of oil a day last year, half as much as it had projected. Gasoline and staple foods are strictly rationed. Essential items such as meat, rice and sugar are distributed to poor and working-class areas first. Still, Tehran does not give the appearance of extreme hardship. Traffic jams...
After classes, we were free. Free to visit museums, to go to concerts and movies, to try to sweet-talk the lady at the Intourist theater ticket office, or to visit friends and new acquaintances. But sooner or later we had to be free to shop for food...
...DINER were set in some European capital, it would easily qualify as an "art film". It is a lushly filmed story of growing up, of five young men coming to grips with maturity, probably a little sooner than they would have liked...
...advance. We should just sit down and talk about it. The Soviets don't want to be blown up in a nuclear war; they know the danger. We'll never know if nuclear weapons have been eliminated. The threat will be with mankind forever. [But without action], sooner or later a nuclear war will happen. Possibly all life will end. If that's possible, we have to act on the assumption that it's true. We have to avoid ever finding...
Production cutbacks will sooner or later bring an end to the liquidations, and thus no economists are forecasting that inflation rates will stay as low as they now are. The Reagan Administration's own official forecast sees the CPI rising by 7.3%. this year, vs. an 8.9% increase in 1981 and a 12.4% rise in 1980. That forecast not long ago looked optimistic, but now is at the upper end of the range of predictions being put forward by private economists...