Word: stridently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shadows are/ I want to hear somebody asking them why/ They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are/ But they're never the ones to fight or to die." This is angry, aggressive songwriting, too deft ever to be dogmatic, too melodic ever to turn strident. Lawless Avenues, co-written with Jorge Calderon and driven home hard by Jim Keltner's full-torque drumming, is the album's centerpiece, a contemporary street epic set in a Southern California barrio, where none of the characters get a chance to dream or a clear shot at a fair...
...brain, like Winston's in Nineteen Eighty-Four, been washed and blow-dried? Suffice to say that only a computer could find the ending happy. Along the terror-ridden corridors of power, Walker, 57, offers an unusual amalgam of merriment and rage. His voice is occasionally too strident, possibly the result of many years of Humblepause. But he is worth hearing for his mirth, and for his message...
Troubled for years by an increasingly strident antismoking movement, Reynolds has long been eager to reduce its dependence on tobacco. Cigarettes currently account for 75% of the company's earnings. It has already acquired Kentucky Fried Chicken, Del Monte foods, Canada Dry soft drinks and Heublein's liquors and wines. The addition of Nabisco favorites, including Oreo cookies, Ritz crackers, Planters peanuts and Baby Ruth candy bars, will give Reynolds a full pantry of profitable products. Moreover, the acquisition will enable Reynolds to be much stronger overseas. Foreign sales account for about 37% of Nabisco's business, compared with only...
...face of this intransigence, regime opponents are increasingly abandoning peaceful attempts at change. Not only is the resistance movement turning to increasingly strident tactics, but white progressives say Black bitterness threatens interracial cooperation against apartheid. At the same time, Prime Minister Botha's efforts at even token reforms have unleashed a substantial backlash among white South Africans, with a substantial portion of the Afrikaner electorate backing a splinter far right party formed...
...debate of the meek or mild, and in recent weeks the opposing voices have grown increasingly strident. "I think corporate raids are an outrage and a bloody scandal," says Lane Kirkland, president of the AFL-CIO. "The object is for somebody to make a killing, pure and simple, and I see no virtue in it at all." Counters Minneapolis Investor Irwin Jacobs, who has made runs at targets as varied as ITT and Disney Productions: "We're really not a bunch of big, bad wolves. Mergers and acquisitions have created a great deal of value...