Word: adds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ONCE AGAIN, as the high mountain snows, melting, add their crystal effluviance to the swelling gurgle of rivulets, and the soft-tendrilled blooming of young flowers casts the sweet perfume of life to the caressing sunlit breezes, it is time for young men to cast their thoughts to sex, and where to get it. Yes, it is spring, and more than ever the mind of the nation is turned to thoughts of roses, moonlight, champagne, latex, spermicidal foam and deadly viruses...
...opened to drilling. He would permit exploration on 1.5 million acres of the 19-million-acre preserve, which could contain between 600 million and 9 billion bbl. of crude. Conservationists contend that drilling would disturb the region's delicate ecosystem for little reason: a strike, they claim, would add just 4% to U.S. oil reserves. Canada also objects to drilling, for fear that caribou migration patterns would be disrupted. Hodel observed that caribou populations in Prudhoe Bay, 100 miles to the west, are three times what they were before drilling began 19 years...
Last week Gephardt was waging a trade war on two fronts. In Congress, he was pressing for passage of the Gephardt amendment, which would add protectionist teeth to the pending trade bill by mandating quotas or tariffs if a rival nation sustained a large trade surplus with the U.S. and refused to eliminate unfair practices. Campaigning in Iowa, he became the first Democratic contender to challenge Hart aggressively on a major issue. Somewhat unfairly, Gephardt linked Hart with Ronald Reagan: "Frankly, I'm disturbed that the front runner in our party echoes the President and offers nothing new on trade...
...issued a manifesto demanding abolition of all "residuals of apartheid." When the Cape Town Nationalist newspaper Die Burger dismissed the gesture as "trivial" because there were only 27 protesters in a faculty of more than 700, an additional 301 promptly signed the manifesto and promised that more would soon add their signatures...
...Manhattan's trendy Bloomingdale's moved its large-size Shop for Women from a little noticed spot on the same floor as the maternity department to a more prominent space that is twice as big. Later this year the store plans to add specially styled lingerie, bathing suits and coats to the sportswear featured in the bustling department. It will hire full-figured salesclerks to help make customers feel more at home...