Word: though
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...work." In fact, wholesale prices for more than two-thirds of all the oil imported into the U.S. are pegged to the spot prices set by commodity traders at the New York Mercantile Exchange, where the cost of oil floats up and down according to global supply and demand. Though spot-market prices for gasoline rose 20 cents per gal. in the first few frantic trading days after the invasion, DiBona pointed out, the major oil companies boosted their wholesale prices by only 12 cents during that period...
That is precisely why I have been messing around in the kitchen since high school days, when I was the first football player to hold membership in the Chef's Club. If I knew how to cook, I would be sure to eat when and what I wanted, even though my mother and father were both steady producers of great food. Cookbooks should serve the same end: better, more flexible eating...
...when they did, we confronted an unforgettable monster, whose political and economic immorality was of a piece with his sexual perversion. Dramatically he was an antagonist who functioned as a powerfully clarifying force, resolving, vivifying all the movie's ambiguities. There is just no one like him here, though Ruben Blades, the singer who is turning into a delicately ironic actor, might have fulfilled the role if his gangster character had been more fully developed. Unfortunately, like everyone else in this huge, wasted effort, he is merely glimpsed wandering in a labyrinth that never draws us into its enigmas...
...generally accepted definition, a recession is at least two straight quarters of declining GNP. Even though the economy managed to eke out a feeble 1.2% rate of growth in the second quarter of 1990, many economists argue that the current slowdown already merits the title of recession. The pessimists gained a measure of support last week from a Federal Reserve report that noted that economic growth "was slow or had slackened" in June and July. "The textbook definition of recession doesn't matter," says Donald Straszheim, chief economist for Merrill Lynch. "The economy is so weak that it looks like...
...each day I put off reading. No matter where I was, though--running from second to third base on the softball field, being yelled at by my tentmates to get seconds on chicken wingdings--that list was always on the back of my mind. Even now, long after my days as a camper, I still, for the life of me, cannot read in the summer. Oh, sure, I put away a few books or plays, but I cannot really read. I cannot truly achieve the feeling that I never ever want to leave my cozy chair until I finish...