Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...survival. The winter has been unusually harsh. With the exception of the Salang Highway, roads into the city are cut, resulting in shortages of bread, diesel fuel, sugar, kerosene and other basics; electricity is available only part of the time. The Kabul grain silo, which usually holds a stock of 20,000 tons, has been empty at several points in the past few weeks. The poor are especially vulnerable because they cannot afford to shop at relatively well-stocked black-market outlets where bread is sold for more than a dollar a loaf, ten times the official price...
Tipped off by the SEC, the French Commission on Bourse Operations zeroed in on Mitterrand's friends Max Theret, 76, and Roger-Patrice Pelat, 70, who profited handsomely from purchases of Triangle stock just before the takeover became public. Because the Finance Ministry approved the deal before it was announced, the information could have leaked from the government. That possibility prompted the resignation last month of Beregovoy's chief of staff, Alain Boublil, who has denied any involvement...
...other indicators, mostly of the Soviet domestic variety, stock in Gorby Inc. is in a tailspin. Most devastating was the news last week that the 1988 Soviet grain harvest ranked as the worst in three years. Despite desperate efforts to reform agriculture, the harvest came in 16 million tons below the previous year and 40 million tons below 1988 targets. Pravda, meanwhile, reported that the Soviet crime rate climbed nearly 17% in the past year, and attributed the rise partly to corruption spawned by new economic freedoms...
...fitting that during Inauguration week, the stock market should have recovered nearly to its level of Black Monday, the day of the 1987 crash. Fitting, because an Inauguration is more than just a transfer of power. It is a ritual re-enactment of the resilience, the suppleness of American life...
Paulos swiftly explodes that notion by discussing stock-market scams, batting averages, newspaper psychics, fraudulent medical treatments, election polls and the reasons why blackjack is a better gambler's game than dice. Those who break into a sweat at the mention of calculus or plane geometry can relax. This elegant little survival manual is brief, witty and full of practical applications. Best of all, it has no quiz at the end, and as Paulos generously admits, the "occasional difficult passage can be ignored with impunity...