Word: felling
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...quotas on such European products as Armani suits and Benetton sweaters. The bill, which President Bush plans to veto, would not only undermine the U.S. negotiating position in GATT but also increase the average American family's annual clothing costs by $750 in a decade. While the House vote fell short of the two-thirds needed to override the veto, the U.S. textile industry still hopes for an eventual success. Developing countries deplore the bill. "How can the American government justify asking Brazil or other countries to open their economies when the U.S. is closing its own?" asks Adimar Schievelbein...
...fled Vietnam on April 30, 1975, the day that Saigon fell. He made his way to Washington's "Little Saigon" and launched a caustic anti-Hanoi column for the Vietnamese-language biweekly Tien Phong. For years, he castigated the Vietnamese government for, as a colleague put it, "betraying the people...
Sara's life fell apart when she started high school last year. A straight-A student in grade school, she began skipping classes, dating a physically abusive older student and wearing only black. By winter, she was trying to kill herself. Sara, who says she felt rejected by her parents, calmly recites her attempts: "Four or five times I took pills. Once I almost slit my wrists, and I tried to hang myself once." With therapy, Sara, at 15, sees a future. One sign: she is wearing colors again...
...economy has long been geared to two-income families; many families could not afford a middle-class life-style without both parents working. The real median income of parents under age 30 fell more than 24% from 1973 to 1987, according to a study by the Children's Defense Fund and Northeastern University. But social programs rarely reflect those economic realities. Growing financial pressure all too often translates into fewer doctors' visits, more stress and less time spent together as a family. Between 1950 and 1989, the divorce rate doubled: 1.16 million couples split up each year. That makes...
...crises keep coming, thicker and faster than the first snowflakes of the season that fell on Moscow last week. The bread and cigarette crises of August have not so much disappeared as given way to discussions about fresh shortages of eggs and butter; well-founded fears of forthcoming scarcity in supplies of potatoes, vegetables and fuel; anxious predictions of riots in coming months. The nation's leaders openly allude to a possible breakdown of authority and descent into anarchy...