Word: tonic
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...prime American goal, extensively advertised in advance, was to win agreement on starting a new round of talks in early 1986 aimed at liberalizing world trade (prematurely christened the Reagan Round by some admirers of the President). One aim would be to provide the world economy . with a tonic, in the form of speeded-up exchange of goods and services, that it might need to shake off the effects of a slowdown in U.S. industrial expansion. A more political, and more pressing, purpose was to give Free Trader Reagan ammunition to use against protectionists at home who want to limit...
...GATT document was greeted by U.S. officials who have been pressuring Western Europe and Japan to ease restrictions on American products and services. "I welcome wholeheartedly the tone and tenor of this report," said U.S. Trade Representative William Brock. He called the recommendations "just the sort of tonic necessary to reinvigorate the global trading system, which we have worked so hard to foster since World...
Connoisseurs of tales of the raj will recognize in Jewel most of the pukka props that have become the stuff of imperial legend: rusty colonels and their horsy daughters, schoolmarmy missionaries and pip-pipping young officers. Awful duffers are forever bashing off for a gin-and-tonic at the club, while social gaffers natter on about their rotten luck. India seems, on the surface at least, to be the ultimate British public school, an extended expatriate cocktail party...
...dust, goat dung and thyme, immemorial sounds of cicada and rustic flute-"O for a beaker full of the warm South!" In such places, color might take on a primary, clarified role. Far from the veils and nuances of Paris fog and Dutch rain, it would resolve itself into tonic declaration-nouns that stood for wellbeing. Such, at least, was Van Gogh's hope...
...appears at the French doors as Lord Edgar. At the climax, Ludlam's Nicodemus struggles with Ludlam's Lady Enid-a true vaudeville tour de farce. Deft as a textbook travesty, delightful enough to take your mom (or your mummy) to, Irma Vep serves as a spiked tonic to the young theater season...