Word: tensely
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It was arguably the toughest week in 40 years for U.S. corporations, their employees and their shareholders. The auto industry, reeling from the gathering disaster in new-car sales, was laying off workers by the tens of thousands; at least 14 auto plants will be closed and more than 200...
If drought struck again, the Sahel could probably count on foreign help similar to this year's 34-nation relief operation, which delivered 560,000 tons of food-one-third of it from the U.S. What is doubtful, however, is whether an emergency aid effort could rescue the tens...
Starvation is only one of the ways in which hunger kills. People whose bellies are full can still die of malnutrition if their diets lack certain essential elements. Lack of the proteins containing essential amino acids-found in milk, meat, fish, beans and nuts-can bring on kwashiorkor, a wasting...
Tens of thousands of citizens have demonstrated in Saigon streets and in major cities and towns throughout Vietnam during the past two months. And despite the threat of violence and jail sentences by Thieu's police force, the number of protesters has increased markedly in recent weeks. Demands for Thieu...
The number of people overall who are involved in smuggling, down to ped dling the contraband, probably runs into the tens of thousands. But the government hopes to break the back of the racket by taking the gang bosses out of circulation. Said Prime Minister Gandhi last week: "Nobody, however...