Word: raw
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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McGinnis' book, like its subject, is unfinished. He packs it with the energy, diversity, and extremity of our last frontier, but he leaves it too raw. It becomes construction noise and restless people passing through. Alaska has not made any sense of itself yet, and neither has McGinnis. There is too little attempt to understand what he has recorded. Nevertheless, he presents the real scene, the graceless complete one. It has the robust glow and toughness of the Alaska that is one huge ragged edge of America...
...entails a weapon, a beating or threat of death, leaves a woman totally vulnerable. For the duration of the rape, she is no one. She is dead, simply a tool through which the rapist can show his power. In the aftermath she turns to an insensitive world with raw fear. She has been violated, her own self negated...
...exchange them for Vietnamese dong at a premium rate. Businesses that make products for international trade are allowed to receive or spend dollars and gold freely. Explains one government adviser: "We don't care where the dollars come from as long as they are used to import raw materials and create new jobs." Saigon is also welcoming investment from Western nations. In partnership with Viet Nam's Ministry of Health, the French chemical firm Rhone-Poulenc has invested $500,000 in a factory where 120 Saigonese produce vitamin C, aspirin and cough syrup...
Lillian Robbins, a psychology professor whose office is located directly below the institute, said raw sewage has at times dripped into her office through the ceiling...
Signs of the American trade connection are in many places. In Shanghai, ships of the American President Line unload bales of American raw cotton. In the southwestern province of Sichuan, preparations are under way for an oil drill bit plant to be built under a $50 million contract with the Hughes Tool Co. In the coastal Fujian province, the state-owned Amoy Cigarette Co. will soon be producing Camels under an agreement with the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. In Peking, Bank of America will open a branch in a two-story brick building that was part of the U.S. legation...