Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...threatening Iraq with war if Saddam does not pull his forces out of Kuwait. On the diplomatic side, these same allies have imposed a tough economic embargo that they hope brings Saddam to his senses -- and to a peaceful resolution of the crisis -- first. But, as Bush tried to make clear this week, it is impossible to have one without the other: Saddam has to believe in the war threat if diplomacy is to have a prayer...
...dealing with an adversary like Saddam, whose future intentions are hidden, and with allies whose own interests are so different, the U.S. needs to keep a variety of signals afloat. Part of the message must sound unavoidably paradoxical: the best hope of avoiding war is to scare Saddam by making a credible threat of waging it, and the only way to make such a threat credible is by really meaning...
...tenderly Depardieu seizes them. His peasant frame is the perfect support for that nose, which seems less a theatrical device, more a natural outgrowth of Cyrano's spirit than it does when puttied on more lissome leading men. Depardieu's Cyrano has a slowness and stubbornness that make one realize how willed his dashing public personality is, how much it is a way of deflecting attention from a self he finds shameful. This imparts a particular poignancy to the final sequence, in which he at last unmasks his yearning soul to Roxane and confronts death not with swirling cape...
...real wages for middle- and low-income workers fell 12.4% between 1972 and 1988, a time when real estate prices were rising relentlessly. While consumer spending grew no faster in the 1980s than it had in the previous two decades, consumers were forced to borrow with a vengeance to make up for eroding income. As a result, the total debt of the average U.S. household rose from the equivalent of 77% of annual income in 1980 to 94% this year, a postwar high...
Increased consumer caution will have its victims. Lenders will have fewer eager borrowers. Automakers and retailers will suffer from slower sales as customers make do with what they have. Last week major retailers reported dismal revenues for the month of October. One hard-hit firm, J.C. Penney, said its sales fell 6.3% from the same month in 1989. Shoppers are particularly avoiding such discretionary items as clothing and furniture. At a time like this, consumers are apparently finding that the thrill of shopping is nothing compared with the satisfaction of paying off some debt on an overburdened credit card...