Word: acclaimers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Marrin, an HRO violinist, said Gubaidulina'smusic first gained a foothold in the United Statesafter she won acclaim for a performance in Bostonlast year...
...photojournalists over what to cover and how. Eugene Smith, one of the masters of the LIFE photo-essay, broke away from the magazine in 1954 to seek, in his view, more profound forms of expression. He spent nearly 20 years in obscure poverty composing lengthy, obsessive projects, finally regaining acclaim with Minimata, his expose of industrial mercury poisoning in Japan...
Bentsen won acclaim for an alternative proposal: encourage savings by expanding the deduction for contributions to Individual Retirement Accounts. This would provide tax benefits mostly to the middle class while simultaneously creating a pool of investment funds, a goal of the capital- gains reduction. Before IRA deductions were restricted in 1986, however, they cost the Treasury $16 billion a year in lost taxes. Bentsen's proposal is unlikely to stop the stampede to cut capital gains, and it could become the next giveaway that Congress and the President will seize upon. But the prospect of a huge loss in revenue...
...hushed up the army's involvement in the killing. In 1931, Tokyo again tried to stop the army. But renegade officers arranged for a geisha to distract and delay the envoy sent by the central government. Overtaken by events and well aware that the Manchurian offensive had won acclaim for the militarist factions in Tokyo, the Japanese government caved in to the army's visions of manifest destiny -- and to its foolhardy insistence on heeding the lessons of World War I at any cost...
...Peary-Cook rivalry began peaceably. Cook, nine years younger, was a steady, valued medical officer on Peary's first Arctic expedition. But Peary jealously guarded the acclaim he earned from the geographical establishment and the millionaires who ran it, so Cook set out on his own. Before long Peary was slurring Cook with the comment that the Arctic "brings a man face to face with himself . . . If he is a man, the man comes out; and if he is a cur, the cur shows as quickly...