Word: call
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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When George Bush took office, he and his advisers, notably including Baker, groped for a policy no one could call Gorbocentric, one that would work equally well no matter who was on the other end of the hot line. The result was a nonpolicy. The Administration was so determined to be ready for anything the cunning and unpredictable Soviets might do next that for months official Washington seemed all but incapable of doing anything...
...Drugs, Rock & Roll Call Eric Bogosian a performance artist, monologist, short-story writer or even playwright. By whatever name, he is one of the shrewdest contemporary critics of the phony, the self-serving, the amoral and the damned. This off-Broadway collection of skits is a caustic vision of greed and substance abuse...
While deficit cutting is good long-term policy, the immediate effect is likely to be more pain. "We are raising taxes in the teeth of a recession," Ratajczak noted. "I am not sure that many people would call that a useful idea." Added Fosler: "The budget agreement was very much like spraying shrapnel. It was sort of an AK-47, as opposed to a target rifle, in terms of its impact on the economy. Lots of sectors are going to be paying higher fees and costs for public services...
...into the working world and offered up some fractured Shakespeare: what to be -- or not to be. The don't wannabes balked at baby boomers' workaholic values, postponed marriage and shunned decision making. As the year wound down, this 48 million- strong force was still seeking an identity to call...
...post-emigre perspective, he feels Louisianians have taken down their COLOREDS ONLY signs and muffled their racial prejudice under thick, soothing layers of courtesy. When he visits Wal- Mart, the discount chain store, there are professional "greeters" at the door. The auto dealer in nearby Monroe made a toll call to find out if he was satisfied with a repair. Strangers always wave at him as they drive by. "One man, a white man, he had a whole arm out of the car. That's normal, natural around here," he says...