Word: vexes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...author's formula has become too predictable, however, and Hot Money is especially welcome because it offers a variation. No steamer trunks this trip, though as usual there are a few "ers" in the mixture, for flavor. Only the locked room of the mind (and the odd explosion) vex the hero, an amateur steeplechase rider named Ian Pembroke, as he puzzles out who is trying to murder his rich and autocratic father...
...even businesses that would carry a larger burden under the committee's plan may be reluctant to make a fuss if it means holding up the bill's progress. The drawn-out process of tax reform, with all its uncertainty, has started to vex corporate leaders because it impedes them from making strategic plans. Complains Stephen Sinclair, president of Rubloff Financial Services in Chicago: "This has been going on since 1984. If they would just make up their minds and tell us what the tax law is going to be, we could go on and do our business." That prospect...
...Administration ready to stabilize the value of the dollar? How can the West increase demand and output without setting off inflation again? The President may think it unfair to be faced with such an inquisition, but he will be assured that no one is trying merely to vex...
...controlled, society has an interest in discouraging it. In societies whose survival depended on the manufacture of sufficient warriors to go die in battle for the good of the tribe, this might be a reasonable argument. Religious attitudes and strictures deriving from this requirement in ancient Israel and elsewhere vex us even...
What do the militant Muslims really want? This question, which began to vex the West with special urgency as the Iranian revolution unfolded, piqued the curiosity of V.S. Naipaul. Instead of simply clucking in wonder, he decided to look for an answer at the source. He mapped out a six-month itinerary that only a journalist or a masochist could love. In August 1979, it was off to Iran, a nation still rejoicing in the fall of the Shah, still tumultuous under the evolving rule of Khomeini. Then to Pakistan, the troubled state founded in 1947 as a homeland...