Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, the highlight of Another Country is the verbal jousting of the pair, reminiscent of Mercutio and Romeo. In one scene Karney admonishes Tomarken for offering one of the young boys a drink. Tomarken counters, "Well he's too young for anything else!" and quickly adding, "I'm not a pedophile you know...
Buresh said that faculty members who support the project have subjected its opponents to "verbal harassment...
...some respects, the U.S. did. President Reagan gave verbal, albeit offhand, support for the dollar, helping halt the currency's plunge, which has alarmed governments from Japan to West Germany during recent weeks. Even more upbeat was the announcement that the U.S. trade deficit, the closely watched barometer of America's global competitive woes, improved by a gratifying degree during September. But at week's end the financial world was left holding its breath for what had been promised as the most reassuring development of all: a bipartisan agreement to cut the U.S. budget deficit. After three weeks of daily...
...between myself and the evil moonface, a poet, a beatnik, a man more sane unconscious than awake, rapping an unmistakable acid/booze rap into the ear of the man who has the power to send 50,000 national guardsmen to drag us to jail in chains, dancing and singing some verbal Mandala, and reaching into his pocket to pull out what I can only hope is...dear God the fattest joint I've seen in 24 hours, pulling it out and waving its resinous perfume beneath the moonface's nose, which raises in haughty shock as his jaw drops in horror...
Lately, business leaders have been warning about an even more deep-seated problem: a lack of basic skills among workers. While America's colleges and universities are second to none, its high schools are failing to give students the verbal and math basics they need for increasingly technical jobs. When New York Telephone recently administered a test of fundamental skills to 22,880 job applicants, 84% failed. Better job-training programs are key parts of major competitiveness-boosting trade bills now being considered in Congress...