Word: torrid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While final details of the two union contracts will not be announced until this week, neither apparently involved large wage hikes that could unsettle the recovery. The agreements came at a time when new statistics indicated that the economy was beginning to slow down from the torrid pace of the first half of the year, as most experts have been predicting. The Commerce Department reported last week that according to its preliminary estimates, the gross national product in the third quarter grew at an annual rate of 3.6%, down from 7.1% in the second quarter. In addition, housing starts...
Rumors of an imminent Iranian land offensive have now died away, and it seems unlikely that either country would increase hostilities during the torrid summer...
...first refugees to arrive at their new home in Campeche last week found inadequate housing and almost no water. Being accustomed to breezy higher altitudes, they worried about whether they could survive in Campeche's torrid jungle. Conditions were so bad that a group of Mexico's Catholic bishops condemned the transfer, saying that the refugees were being "abandoned to their luck." The Mexican government responded by naming a new director for the agency responsible for refugees, its third in two years. The move was not expected to ease the problem...
...living. She chose her films because the locations appealed to her, and it is clear to her on hindsight that she might have paid more attention to the scripts. Her chilly beauty aroused thoughts of ravishment, at least in the minds of directors, and for one torrid scene, in Soldier Blue, it was determined that she required larger breasts. To her amazement, she recalls, her thorax was coated with Vaseline, a cast was made, and a jumbo rubber bosom was prepared. Nude scenes embarrassed her, but she found herself wondering whether, with rubber breasts glued on, she would really...
...didn't have to be that way. Based on a Graham Greene novel, The Honourary Consul, the film has the requisite political intrigue, exotic locale and torrid sex to endear it to countless moviegoers. What's more, Beyond the Limit has Richard Gere and Michael Caine, two tried and tested actors, to carry things alone. But from this mass of potential, director John MacKenzie has crafted a remarkable vacuum...