Word: handed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...country's uneven economy could work either for or against stability. On the one hand, the industrial and urban transformations wrought by Tito have had a cohesive influence. "People have been concentrating on a better standard of living instead of hating their neighbors," says a Western diplomat in Belgrade. But a severe economic downturn could aggravate the glaring inequities, and consequent animosities, between the developed northern republics like Slovenia and hinterlands like Kosovo. Lately the economy has been ailing. Unemployment, estimated at more than 13%, is growing. The current annual inflation rate is estimated at 35%, compared with...
...leaders to intervene, although the government has offered the unions a package of price freezes and tax cuts that, when added to S.A.F.'s proposal, would approximate labor's demand. Gunnar Nilsson, head of L.O., has rejected that approach. Many Swedes fear that the government's hands-off policy spells economic doom. But at week's end strike-bound Swedes were heartened by news that mediators had proposed pay boosts ranging from 6.8% to 7.3%. With that offer, an end to Sweden's costliest quarrel could finally be at hand...
...spin the revolving door on a potential successor to the helm of the firm he effectively created 52 years ago. In October 1976, also without warning and also at a time of triumph, Paley sacked Backe's predecessor, Arthur Taylor, the self-confident financial expert Paley had hand-picked as president four years ear lier. Under Taylor, CBS profits had climbed to new rec ord levels. In the past decade, Paley had balked at turning over real authority to two other presidents, Frank Stanton and Charles Ireland...
...such popular antidepressants as the tricyclics have been a boon to the mentally ill, they usually take several weeks to produce results. If the initial drug does not seem to work, the doctor may begin trying others-until there is nothing left but shock therapy. Kupfer, on the other hand, found that even when there is no apparent change in a patient's mood, the drug almost immediately delays the onset of dreaming...
...breaks away and reveals Luke's own face; the symbol of evil was in Luke. Later, when he battles the real Vader, he is again tested, and Vader's evil has a magnetic power that is far more potent than the weapon he carries in his gloved hand. Luke, who is not yet strong or virtuous enough to resist such temptation, escapes only by letting himself fall desperately into the void below...