Word: soundness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...That sound roaring out of the West ?what was it? A California earthquake? A Pacific tidal wave threatening to sweep across the country? Literally, it was neither; figuratively, it was both. That angry noise was the sound of a middle class tax revolt erupting, and its tremors are shaking public officials from Sacramento to Washington, D.C. Suddenly all kinds of candidates in election year 1978 are joining the chorus of seductive antitax sentiment, assailing high taxes, inflation and government spending...
...occupier if the Arabs had not compelled it to fight. In the end, they ignore the problem. They turn their eyes from Palestinian troubles and finally talk about something else. A history of four wars, of almost daily terrorism, of hatred and struggle, has become so overpowering that the sound of the word occupation seems pale by comparison...
...dense harmonies." Titled Satyagraha, it is based on the life of Mahatma Gandhi and has been commissioned by the city of Rotterdam for a Netherlands Opera performance in 1980. But Glass also wants to pursue the quiet vein of Part 4: "I don't have to break the sound barrier every time...
Shaba's newly appointed military governor, Singa Boyenge Mosrmbry, tried to sound a positive note. "I am always an optimist," he said last week. "Next year the situation will be completely changed. The whites will be back by August or September." Perhaps so. But those who have remained are demanding a special payment of $1,000 a month in "danger money," the right to bear private arms, guarantees of evacuation "on demand" and, more significantly, a foreign military garrison. The expatriates have no confidence in the ability of the Zaïrian army to ward off another rebel attack...
...should take together is to lower the tariffs and scrap the quotas that keep many products of the LDCS-beef, sugar, cotton textiles, shoes -out of Northern markets. These rising barriers hurt precisely those LDCs, such as Argentina, Brazil, India and Mexico, that have the best chance of building sound economies based on a mix of industry and agriculture. The World Bank estimates that trade barriers cost LDCs $24 billion a year in lost exports of manufactured goods alone...