Word: sourfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though largely unrelated in their specific causes, the disasters last week were all accelerated by the 60% drop in the price of oil since the beginning of the year. By causing energy loans to go sour and depressing the whole Southwest, cheap oil pushed the Oklahoma City bank over the brink and aggravated BankAmerica's huge losses. The petroleum slide helped drag down LTV too, because the company is a major supplier of oil-drilling and pumping gear, which almost no one wants to buy right now. Last week the number of oil rigs operating in the U.S. reached...
Knowingly or not, Author Sue Miller, 42, has constructed a parable eerily in tune with the waning of the sexual revolution. The heady sleep-arounds of the 1960s, the freewheeling no-fault divorces of the '70s, have given way as the '80s wane to some sour, after-party second thoughts. Could it be that liberation has created problems as crippling as those produced by the bad old repressions...
...cheat as individuals. They did so, following the basic tenet of their sport, as a team. Money may have been the bait but loyalty and comradeship were the motives that persuaded them, some with great reluctance, to betray their talents. As Chick Gandil (Paul Christie), the sour ringleader of the scam, remarks in an aside, people become willing to do something they consider wrong if they see enough others doing it. Kelly shrewdly narrows his focus to just the wrongdoers, not the colleagues who never joined -- or, in at least some cases, were not asked. Most of the locker-room...
...corruption. Bureaucrats have taken kickbacks from enterprises in return for supplying them goods at subsidized prices. The products are then resold on the open market for hefty profits. Other officials have installed family members in businesses that then arrange lucrative deals through party connections. Practices like these have helped sour many Chinese on the reform program...
...beautiful. Not only would millions of the hungry be fed, but never again would I bite into a sour piece of rubber or peel apart a burger in order to extract the urethane substance like a pair of dirty diapers. Millions and millions of Americans would share in the jubilation. For the few who actually liked the pickles, they would be making a minor sacrifice for a grand cause...