Word: thrash
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...into unaccustomed minglings, new communions, fresh gestures. The purpose of it all, undeclared and unsentimental, is to arouse a general reaffirmation of the commonality of life as the year's shortest day comes and goes. While emotionally fragile individuals may suffer special aggravations as a result, the temperamental thrash that most people feel is often no deeper than their resistance to being nudged out of narrow everyday patterns. The pressure of the season is only the mute wish of a society that yearns, against all odds, for a sense of wholeness...
Last week Common Market finance ministers met in Brussels to thrash out details of the proposed system. At its core would be the European Currency Unit, or ECU, whose value would be based on a "basket" of European currencies in which the German mark would weigh the most heavily. The ECU would be not a bill or a coin but a series of accounts that member governments would use. European currencies would be allowed to fluctuate around the ECU in a narrow band of 1% either way, and the ECU would float against the dollar. Moreover, when member nations intervened...
...more relaxed cast returned with a very funny tongue-in-cheek parody, "Raining in My Heart," from Dames at Sea. The second half of the show is much looser and livelier and the peak of the evening is "Tap Your Troubles Away," which really might convince you to exuberantly thrash your woes with a pair of tap shoes...
...much relief this can ultimately bring to the U.S. steel industry is questionable. The Treasury Department will have to thrash out pricing problems that approach the metaphysical. According to the way they add up the numbers, for example, the Japanese steelmakers contend that they are not dumping, just producing steel more efficiently. American mill executives swear that cannot be true. Says Speer: "No foreign producers, including those in Japan, can manufacture steel, ship it to this country and undersell our domestic product without engaging in unfair trade practices...
...consumer groups, were loosely allied, often unorganized and, ultimately, no match for the pro-gas juggernaut. Even if the gas interests do not win complete deregulation in the end, they are confident they will get a good price for their product when the two chambers meet in conference to thrash out a final bill. Said James Abourezk, the South Dakota Democrat who launched the filibuster in hopes of thwarting the deregulators: "If you want to talk about lobbying, wait until the oil and gas boys zero in on the conference committee members...