Word: vigorousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...puts unreasonable pressure on the current production and, even more, on whatever he writes next. Early success is followed, almost metronomically, by harsh reappraisal; and in the process, many promising writers are intimidated, disillusioned or silenced. Still, every playwright dreams of seeing his work designed with authenticity, directed with vigor and grace, and acted with menace, tenderness and humor. That is what has happened to Cuba...
Parties like West Germany's Greens, who have long opposed the stationing of U.S. missiles in Europe, are capitalizing on such fears and arguing against anything and everything nuclear with renewed vigor. Last week the Greens adopted a two-pronged program calling on Bonn to withdraw from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and abolish nuclear power. "The connection is obvious," says Uwe Nehrlich, director of West Germany's Research Institute for International Politics and Security...
...special section commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing; and the 1985 Man of the Year cover story on China's Deng Xiaoping (Jan. 6, 1986). The judges cited TIME for "meshing pictures, artwork, headlines and text . . . to tell the story with clarity, efficiency, drama and vigor." Commented Art Director Rudy Hoglund, who, with Executive Director Nigel Holmes and Special Projects Chief Tom Bentkowski, is responsible for the look of the magazine: "TIME's art department got this award the old-fashioned...
...labor shortages could worsen considerably this year as the U.S. economy starts to grow with renewed vigor. Government figures released last week showed that the gross national product expanded at a 3.2% annual rate in the first quarter of 1986, nearly five times as fast as in the last quarter of 1985. The sharp pickup in growth may prove to be quirky, but it got an additional boost late in the week when the Federal Reserve Board cut its discount rate, which is the interest charged on loans to member banks, from 7% to 6.5%, its lowest level in eight...
...Mexicans. His policy of supporting an armed resistance to a nearby regime he disliked was not only politically illegitimate and morally questionable, it was also counter-productive. As one historian wrote, "Wilson's assumptions about how to effect change in Latin nations [were] greatly flawed; he especially underestimated the vigor and resistance to external guidance of revolutionary nationalism...