Word: wasteland
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...logic prevailed, Fao would be awarded not to the winner but to the loser of the struggle for this wet, muddy wasteland. Heavy trucks carrying Iraqi soldiers and supplies to the front rumble over roads running along levees, above the marshy terrain approaching Fao. The Iranians, using flat-bottomed boats with powerful outboard engines, roar across the blue-green waters of the gulf to deliver ammunition and reinforcements, who bring the latest , exhortations of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini...
...fertilizer suffocated the Yard last week, its freshman residents were experiencing a run-in of their own in Harvard's procedural wasteland: the computer test of the quantitative reasoning requirement...
This Rocky of the teen-age wasteland has spent his life avoiding the bout of the social arena, not just out of fear, but because he doesn't believe in its reward. "It's all so superficial," he proclaims with annoying insistence. So Lucas seems destined to remain a loner, capturing bugs for the school terrarium. But then, the inevitable happens. Lucas falls in love. As a dubious knight in shining armor, Lucas must fight for his fair maiden in the dread land of superficiality...
...talking about, has got to be the most torporific cinematic experience in recent memory. And one can thank Adrian Lyne for making the impossible happen: turning a potentially torrid sado-masochistic relationship between a beautiful supermodel (Kim Basinger) and a stud actor (Mickey Rourke) into an emotional and sexual wasteland...
...same speech, Aquino referred to the Philippines as the "basket case of Southeast Asia," an unflattering but all-too-accurate reference to the economic wasteland she has inherited. The Philippines' foreign debt exceeds $27 billion. The annual interest payment alone--about $1.7 billion--amounts to a third of export earnings. In 1985 the growth rate plunged to negative 3.5%, while per capita income declined to about $600 a year, no higher in real terms than it was in 1972. Almost half of the nation's 21 million workers are unemployed at least part of the year. One of the priorities...