Word: writes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gone to Nicaragua to write a cookbook, I would have returned with at least one fairly serviceable, all-purpose left-wing dish. Recipe for a Communist: Preheat a Third World dictatorship whose principal devotions are to its own maintenance and anti-Communism; coddle an oligarchy that controls 90 percent of the national wealth; skin off an educated middle class through exile or intimidation; chill dissent by suppression; crush peasants and workers with hunger and debts that make progress impossible; let foreign corporations porations drain the country of raw materials; stir in an army that reports only to the dictator...
SUDDENLY THE classroom door flew open. The tapping of a heel was heard. Then a tune: "I'm the type of guy, who likes to write a line/Yeah, I'm a writer/Ooh, ooh, a writer I write around, 'round, 'round, 'round...
Both said their studies at Harvard will be related to their work and will help them gain new perspectives on topics they plan to write about on their return...
...Hence the greater the probability that Marcos's departure from office will be followed by major revolutionary or quasi revolutionary upheaval. Ghoulish as it may appear, Marcos's ill health is now one of the few factors favoring less instability in the Philippines." The authors write...
...loans that remain in banking hands, however, are of steadily decreasing quality in areas like oil-related activity, farming, real estate and Third World debt. The drag of those deteriorating assets has put the banking system at increasing long-term risk. In 1984 and 1985 U.S. banks had to write off between $15 billion and $16 billion worth of bad debts. In 1986 the figure is estimated at $21 billion. Last week, when many big banks reported their first-quarter earnings, the results were broadly depressed. Manufacturers Hanover's profits, for example, fell 21%, to $81 million, while Chase Manhattan...