Word: recentered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your recent book Palm Latitudes, you portray a world of poor Latin women. Why did you choose to write about them...
...elections were prompted by rioting last April among Jordan's Bedouin community, the base of Hussein's support, to protest consumer price hikes. In addition, there was widespread suspicion that recent governments have been riddled with corruption. But the strong showing by the fundamentalists suggested a rejection of the secular Western values personified by the King himself...
Cutler's boss is trying to get the message out that hard times are on the way. Lee Iacocca, who visited Washington last week to lobby Congress for a tougher, more focused U.S. trade and industrial policy toward Japan, said in a recent interview with the trade publication Automotive News, "They don't know there is a war on. They don't have the foggiest idea. Am I saying the worst is yet to come? I don't think we've bottomed out yet. That is what I am saying." No one in Detroit would contest his argument. The outcome...
...however, is no longer confined to tough areas. In an affluent part of Tallahassee last month, one janitor shot another to death in front of about 100 grade schoolers. Last year in posh Winnetka, Ill., a woman opened fire in an elementary classroom, killing an eight-year-old. Other recent school slayings have occurred in middle-class areas of Greenwood, S.C.; Largo, Fla.; Little Rock and Virginia Beach...
...novelty: most postwar Japanese thinkers, obsessed with war guilt and appreciative of America's magnanimity during and after the Occupation, have largely preferred a cautious, indirect approach when writing about relations with the U.S. But the new assertiveness shown by Ishihara intrigues many Japanese citizens: in a recent poll, his name placed third among likely candidates for the prime ministership. Many political insiders feel he is too controversial to get the top job. But Ishihara himself insists that "Japan needs a leader who can say yes or no clearly," as he told TIME's Seiichi Kanise in the following interview...