Word: acidic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nation Socialist International in Rio de Janeiro. Politicians at the meeting tried mightily to broker an agreement between the Sandinistas and their foremost democratic opponent, Arturo Cruz Porras, in order to allow Cruz and his backers to participate in the Nov. 4 elections, which have become an acid test of the Sandinistas' democratic intentions. Opposition forces have argued that they need more time to mount an effective campaign. Cruz and Sandinista Directorate Member Bayardo Arce Castano apparently agreed in Rio to postpone the balloting until Jan. 13. But the deal fell apart, according to some of those...
Shamie, who backs the president on just about every major issue (acid rain is an exception), has jousted with the more liberal Richardson over tax policy, nuclear policy, and U.S. involvement in Central America, and the debate has been interesting if not always effectively argued...
...bags from her pack, and Jeff began collecting pieces of eggshell, olive brown flecked with mocha spots, membrane gooey on the white inside. Somebody with a micrometer would check the specimens for thickness. In the days of DDT, the shells thinned dangerously, though not fatally. In the days of acid rain, one worries−without evidence, so far−that the shells might thin again...
Mulroney has his own agenda for dealing with the U.S. At the top of the list is acid rain, which is threatening Canada's important fishing and timber industries−and which many Canadians blame on the U.S. The Reagan Administration contends that the link between acid rain and sulfur-dioxide emissions that drift northward from coal-fired power plants in the Midwest has not yet been proved. Mulroney, however, has promised to push the issue with the White House, most likely after the U.S. election in November. The Liberal government committed itself to halving emissions on its side...
...Restoration court, lamented. The playwright Aphra Behn concurred. The 17th century's female model, she said, was "that dull slave call'd a Wife." Among her fellow rebels, Fraser reports, were she-authors, she-preachers, even she-soldiers, as well as stubborn widows, unruly prostitutes and acid-tongued ladies of the court...