Word: wave
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American has dug itself into a hole so deep, that it is close to impossible to get out. Protectionism would clearly trigger a wave of retaliatory measures from Japan that would send the U.S. and the world into an even deeper depression than it is now experiencing. And Japan's control in America may prove a stumbling block to any attempt to reverse its gains...
...reform measures at the center of the Polish dispute, after all, are the local version of Gorbachev's campaign of perestroika (restructuring), and early setbacks in a key satellite hardly bode well for the vaster and still more intractable economy of the Soviet Union. The proximate cause of the wave of strikes in Poland was the imposition of price hikes, ranging from 40% for food staples to 100% for utility charges, aimed at bringing price levels roughly into line with market costs. A similar program of reforms is scheduled to take effect in the Soviet Union as early...
...grass-roots movement. "We will place authority and responsibility with the people who are closest to the children," explains Renee Montoya of Designs for Change, a child-advocacy group that is helping to lead the way. Efforts like these, says Boyer, constitute a "new agenda," a critical second wave that may succeed where the earlier, top-down reform movement failed. If so, perhaps at last the tidal wave of mediocrity will subside...
...when a Roper poll asked the baby-boom generation for its heroes, the rich and famous and superficial headed the list: Clint Eastwood and Eddie Murphy, celebrities standing in for real heroes. But the current wave of nostalgia for Bobby Kennedy may be a signal that the generation that retreated to self-absorption in the '70s and '80s may be ready to feel passion again. That Kennedy is a hero to them could be more than nostalgia; it may suggest a yearning, once again, to re-engage...
...general watched, Roth waved a glass rod which had been dipped in the substance, and a wave of male cockroaches followed the wafting smell. The general then said that he wanted everyone else at the meeting to see the demonstration...