Word: yokes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Even in the silent era she tended to be typecast in such films as Ramona (1928) and The Loves of Carmen (1927); after sound, her accent limited her still further, though she starred in Flying Down to Rio (1933) and Madame Du Barry (1934). Finally sick of the Hollywood yoke, she returned to Mexico and helped establish the country's movie industry, notably with Maria Candelaria...
...roots, in fact, lie elsewhere. Its name comes from the Bulgars, a people of Turkic origin that moved south of the Danube and into present-day Bulgaria in the 7th century. Conquered by the Ottoman Turks in 1396, the Bulgarians spent the next 500 years under the yoke of Constantinople before being set free by the Tsar's forces. During both world wars the country sided with Germany, but it could never bring itself to declare war against the Soviet Union. In 1944, the regency of seven-year-old King Simeon II scrambled to forge a separate peace with...
...Lekachman argues, the chaos of Reaganomics must inevitably give way to order. The question is whether we will be assumbled under the common yoke of a corporate-dominated reindustrialization plan or whether we will join in a popular movement for an alternative...
...country's newest yoke is high external debt-upwards of $10 billion-and it is weighing heavily. Two weeks ago, after a patient wait of about two months, European American Bank finally asked the U.S. Commodity Credit Corporation to make good on an overdue installment of $5.5 million on a loan obtained by Rumania to buy U.S. farm products. Earlier, First Chicago International had made a similar claim for $300,000. As initial guarantor of the loans...
...long Watergate ordeal affected him. Standing in the pilot's cabin aboard Air Force One on a trip with Nixon, Ehrlichman momentarily considered a quick solution: "I could end everyone's troubles by throwing myself against the controls, wedging myself between the pilot's control yoke and the pilot. We'd all be gone in about a minute and a half." Some of the unfortunate former officials portrayed in Witness to Power may wish that Ehrlichman had not dismissed the idea. -By Ed Magnuson