Word: hiccuping
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...highest in Europe. Yet industrial production hasn't fallen as much as in other countries, wage growth is among the best anywhere, and to my eyes most of the stores seemed to be doing brisk business. Most Spaniards, undoubtedly, aren't bigots. Something more than economic frustration, some cultural hiccup, drives the apparent dismissal of the horrors of racism...
...What about you?" Artyom asks. "Do you still believe?" The man's laugh is short, like a hiccup, revealing two gold-capped teeth. "I don't know what to believe anymore. Sometimes I think I should grab all the money I have, buy a pistol and take it to the Kremlin...
THERE WAS A TIME WHEN EVERY HICCUP FROM MOSCOW made headlines around the world. With the end of the cold war, newspapers and television have shifted | their attention to other areas -- from a riveting U.S. election to the tragedies in Yugoslavia and Somalia. Yet the tumultuous transformation of the former Soviet Union remains one of the biggest stories of the decade, and that's why we've devoted the entire main section of this week's issue to a special report on the New Russia. "The former Soviet Union's fate is still critically important to America and the rest...
Thatcherism in England was called less a revolution than a hiccup, in a recent issue of the Times Literary Supplement. Will the same be said of Reaganism? Certainly Reagan's reputation, like Thatcher's, is in eclipse at the moment. But Reagan's decline may be an extreme reaction, prompted by this year's mysteriously sour mood. Ending the cold war has left Americans adrift. Anticommunism imposed an ordinating principle on the government's many scattered activities. Without that principle, the country seems disoriented. The nation's problems are evident, but Reagan's denigration of government (for all uses...
None of that is causing more than a hiccup here and there. There is no better example than the way France has shrugged off any doubts about the $110 billion nuclear program. Since 1977, the state-owned public utility has built 53 pressurized-water reactors to become the most densely seeded generator of nuclear power on earth. France has quintupled its production of electricity, cut its dependence on imported oil 40%, and made power so cheap that domestic rates are 20% to 30% below the European Community average...