Word: unevennesses
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...advertising and insurance, many heartland states have been held back by their dependence on depressed agriculture, oil and declining smokestack industries. The virtual disappearance of inflation (consumer prices did not rise at all in July, and for the first seven months of 1986 they actually declined .2%) has had uneven regional effects. % Overall stability has masked what a Reagan Administration official calls a "worldwide deflation" in commodity prices that has struck hard at farmers. More recently, the collapse of oil prices has depressed states in the energy belt from Colorado to Louisiana...
...Merano, an honorary nom de cuisine he enjoys), who owns the Villa Mozart, a trimly polished Jugendstil-designed hotel in Merano. He stirs the pasta pots for Operator Tony May, who masterminds Palio's spacious and vaguely Japanese- looking dining rooms. So far Hellrigl's esoteric offerings have been uneven. They may be as institutionally dull as his lackluster codfish with potatoes or the watery mushroom terrine or as wonderfully executed as the ricotta dumplings with truffle butter or a risotto with sweet red peppers. "It is a challenge to give Americans a taste of my style," Hellrigl says. "Some...
Some installments, more ambitiously, try to fashion an appreciation of the subject by combining biographical material with excerpts from his or her work. The results are uneven. An upcoming 2 1/2-hour show on Eugene O'Neill brings on Actors Jason Robards and Geraldine Fitzgerald, among others, to perform scenes from O'Neill dramas. Interspersed are labored re-creations of people and events from the playwright's life, complete with sound effects (snoring in a flophouse) and performers impersonating such O'Neill intimates as his wives Agnes and Carlotta and Critic George Jean Nathan...
...four solid months of some of the most intensive work he has ever done. "We had to pick people who fit the work for the different parts of the investigation. We called on everyone. We listened to everybody. And they wrote the report. It may be a little uneven, but that is worth...
Born eight years ago, the South African divestment movement has had an uneven activism record. In the movement's first year, 3500 students participated in a divestment protest in Harvard Yard, complete with bullhorns, torches, and pickets. Hundreds of students spent that night encamped around Massachusetts Hall, preventing Bok from entering his office and forcing him to use Holyoke Center as a temporary office...