Word: tion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Volck' er i za' tion, n. 1: a process of money management whereby interest rates are kept high at a time of deepening recession; 2: a reliance on tight monetary policy in order to protect the value of the dollar abroad and quell inflation at home...
...powerful Black Sea fleet. Moreover, Turkey's entire 500,000-strong armed forces have been seriously weakened by the arms embargo; the effectiveness of its air force has declined by 50%. Says Secretary of State Cyrus Vance: "Turkey supplies more ground forces to NATO than any other na tion. If Turkey is to continue to play its NATO role, our relationship must be revitalized." Another U.S. official puts it more graphically: "The central question is: Why are we shooting ourselves in the foot...
Except, of course, that there never was a real Heathcliff. The power of great fic tion makes such facts unimportant, and both L'Estrange and Caine have paid trib ute to that power. The trouble is that both writers hint of further tributes to come. Pinnacle does more than hint; it promises "additional volumes chronicling the lives and loves of the descendants of Heathcliff and Catherine." The prospect of some nine generations of Heathcliffs yet to come is horrifying, and not in a way Emily Brontë would admire. A Heathcliff in the factory, another in the trenches...
...seedy, archaic industrial area (which is no more). Most of all, its accessibility benefits the cus tomer; indeed, it was designed as a "people place." As the plans evolved, it was agreed that it would not be just a foot ball palace, but a multipurpose sporting-business-conven tion-cultural center that could revitalize the sensual, sickly Blanche DuBois of cities...
...Russian deep-cover agents in the U.S. are mind-conditioned to sabotage military targets when they get a phone call repeating a triggering phrase- is seen from the start as a forgotten pre-détente plot that an unreconstructed cold warrior (Donald Pleasence) manages to set in mo tion a decade too late...