Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...novel describes the aftermath of a tortuous love affair between the narrator, Kate Ennis, and a married man named Jake. "Orcas Island," the first of the book's three parts, consists almost entirely of inconsequential vignettes, save for the occasional recollection of some uncomfortable scene with Jake, all culled from Kate's recent and distant past. An air of anticipation runs throughout these sometimes humorous, sometimes ironic sketches which appear to introduce Kate's bright but as of yet unfocused mind. These narrative throat clearings are expected to subside and the story of Kate and Jake, or at least Kate...
...danger of this complacent faith in the First Amendment became apparent last week in the aftermath of the lowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary. The House Telecommunications Subcommittee has been holding hearings this year concerning the effect of TV projections on final vote tallies. The problem first received widespread attention after the 1980 Presidential contest, when President Jimmy Carter's early concession prompted as much as two per cent of the Western electorate to stay home, according to several studies. Although this probably didn't cause Carter's defeat, the results of state-level contests may have been decisively...
...aftermath of the murder of the Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko by South Africa security police and the Soweto riots that followed when the South African police killed hundreds of Black students, the divestiture movement at Harvard was revived with the founding of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC). The Harvard Corporation and the ACSR at this time recognized no special problems with corporations doing business in South Africa, but after a year of rallies, pickets and packed ACSR hearings, culminating in a 3000- (yes, that's three thousand) person torchlight parade and day-long blockade of University Hall...
Even in the aftermath of his dramatic Manchester confession, Jackson has demonstrated that his "hymie" reference was not just a random off-color remark, but evidence of a deep lack of understanding about the politics of the "Rainbow Coalition." The Jews never went to the gas chambers silently; throughout history the Jews, a persecuted minority since the days of Moses, have fought adversity and rose to prominence on their own terms. And like Blacks, Jews still face irrational hatred in America. But since last summer, when Jackson first started preaching about the Rainbow Coalition in earnest, he has excluded...
That may be true. But whatever the drawbacks, bankruptcies are multiplying. In fiscal 1980, 5,765 firms filed for bankruptcy. By 1983 that figure had ballooned to 17,608. The causes: the recession and its aftermath, and a 1978 overhaul of the Bankruptcy Code that permits troubled, but not insolvent, firms to declare bankruptcy. The 1978 change has made bankruptcy both a shield and a sword. Robert Miller, executive vice president of Congress Financial Corp., a commercial lending institution, supports the Bildisco decision but finds the growth of bankruptcies disturbing. Says he: "Any time a company makes a bad business...