Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Daniloff affair and its aftermath. When we arrested their spy, they took Daniloff as a hostage. I think they have paid a price for doing that, at least in the Western press. It brings everybody back to see that however much we may want to solve these problems, their society is very different from ours, has different values and standards, and is not a place we'd particularly like to live...
...status and dreams of moving up in Colleton society. Eldest Son Luke, the Rambo of the salt marshes, returns from Viet Nam to wage a one- man guerrilla war against the construction of plutonium production plants. Brother Tom is an ex-high school football coach struggling with the aftermath of a nervous breakdown and a failing marriage. His twin sister Savannah is a successful poet and, fortunately, a failed suicide...
From the canyons of Wall Street to the assembly lines of sprawling factories, the performance of the U.S. economy was generating a high level of anxiety and uncertainty last week. The New York Stock Exchange settled into a nervous lull in the aftermath of the record plunge of the Dow Jones industrial average the week before. The Commerce Department reconfirmed that growth in the gross national product was almost completely stalled in the second quarter. Economists, executives and workers all pondered the same questions: Is the U.S. slipping into a recession? Are interest rates headed higher? Is inflation poised...
...aftermath of the resignation, at least one board source said, "I am uncomfortable with what happened." Wyman, said the source, "didn't mend his fences with the board. He was somewhat aloof. The board would hear about important things for the first time at meetings." But overall, in this view, Wyman's record during his tenure was "not sufficient to call for dismissal." At the same time, the change was "really foreordained," given the strong feelings that had arisen between Wyman, Paley and Tisch...
...photographers in the Portland show, Yan Morvan and Alfred Yaghobzadeh, have worked in Lebanon, and from some of their pictures one can grasp the moral implications of that tone. Their best images are their least polished: Morvan's scene of the aftermath of a car bomb, Yaghobzadeh's shot of two men bearing the victim of heavy shelling. For photographers working in the rubble of failed diplomacy, the most decent impulse is to use the camera as a branding iron -- the right pictures are blunt, scorching and indelible. That they can also look raw and haphazard is merely proof that...