Word: harshness
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...craziness only starts there. Out of work and out of luck, Otto--who is played by Emilio Estevez, a dead ringer for his father. Martin Sheen--joins up with the repo men, getting a harsh initiation into the world of jimmying locks, seizing parked cars, and avoiding gunfire from disgruntled debtors. He thought he was tough, but here he meets some people who are really out on the fritz. Here's Bud (played by Harry Dean Stanton), a frazzled repovet who first brings Otto into the business--getting him to help him with a difficult heist--and then befriends...
...addition, the country has been suffering from a huge trade deficit ($5.1 billion in 1983). Finance Minister Yigal Cohen-Orgad tackled the problem last fall by devaluing the shekel and slicing government expenditures by 6%. That harsh remedy began to work: the trade deficit for the first five months of 1984 was 25% less than for the same period of 1983. Unemployment remains low by Western standards (5.7%), but many Israelis fear that it will continue to rise if measures are taken to cool inflation...
...debtor government to put its economic house in order. When the deficits were "structural," reflecting permanent changes in a country's terms of trade, such adjustments could be painful: currency devaluation, tax increases, reduced government spending, tight controls on monetary growth. But if the immediate impact was harsh, the long-term goals were healthy, sustainable growth and high employment...
...Well, if I've been too harsh," he answered sarcastically, "maybe if I apologize for shooting down the KAL 707 [actually a 747]... maybe they'll warm...
...cigarette manufacturer's dream: a market where the laws do not require harsh health warnings on package labels or no-smoking sections in restaurants, and where 250 million people each puff an average of half a pack...