Word: threefold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...base for a war of conquest in the Caribbean Basin. Nicaragua is supporting subversion in Honduras and uses our territory for the traffic in arms. We are also seeing a disproportionate growth in the Sandinista armed forces. In a period of three years, they have grown more than threefold [to 27,000]. I do not believe they are increasing their military just for parade purposes. When you think about the fact that the Nicaraguan economy is in as deplorable a situation as ours, you wonder where the money for the armed forces came from...
...copulation and death (all offstage). This is not the only hint of T.S. Eliot's influence on Harold Pinter, since a good many of the lines have the weary, dying fall of Eliot's poems. Always in Pinter, the dialogue is the drama, and it follows a threefold pattern. The source of the first is his fondness for vaudeville, a predilection he shares with Samuel Beckett, a playwright Pinter vastly admires. The second is the inquisitorial mode: a character is grilled, mocked and menaced. The third is the puncturing of rote responses to reveal emotional vacuity. When Lamb...
...does not oppose their policies. Says Lucker: "Clearly he cannot be saying that we shouldn't be taking stands on moral issues that have political implications. Look at his own statements on Poland." A Vatican official describes the Pope's views on El Salvador to be threefold: to prevent bloodshed, encourage social reform and avoid the emergence of "another Cuba." Neither the bishops nor the Reagan Administration would disagree with those goals; the question is how to attain them...
...Reynolds' good fortunes in the past has been to play opposite women with looks and talent. In Paternity, his fortune increases threefold, as D'Angelo, Hutton, and dazzling Elizabeth Ashley all have what it takes to be leading ladies. The innocently beautiful D'Angelo draws the audience into her corner with ease as the movie runs its course. Hutton, has, of course, played opposite Reynolds before, with the same delightful result. And Elizabeth Ashley, as Evans' feisty southern girlfriend, always puts on a good show...
...recur more quickly than in the unmedicated women. The investigator attributed the more rapid growth to anxiety, but Horrobin believes that the tranquilizer's physical effects might be to blame. This is particularly ominous, says Horrobin, because "after a diagnosis of cancer, tranquilizer use increases two or threefold." The researcher adds: "Since nobody has bothered to look at tranquilizer use in patients receiving cancer therapy, all the studies comparing treatments may be messed...