Word: aires
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...London streets as a walkout of refuse collectors entered a sixth week, and sporadic work stoppages there and in other cities by public employees fouled up the operations of hospitals and schools. Thus even though the public workers' walkout finally seemed headed toward a settlement, there was an air of desperation about Labor Prime Minister James Callaghan when he appeared in Parliament. Waving a new 19-page peace treaty with his Labor government's once strongest backer, the powerful Trades Union Congress (T.U.C.), Callaghan declared: "We stand by this document, and we will win the election with...
Although the Viscount crash increased white Rhodesians' defiance, it also deepened their feeling of encirclement. Joking references to the Kariba-Salisbury air route as "Flight SAM-7" that were voiced in Salisbury after September's attack were not repeated last week. Indeed, whites' feelings of vulnerability were further heightened by the experience of the Viscount sent out to survey the RH-827 crash site. Flying low to reduce the risk of being hit by a missile, the pilot felt a slight jar and thought the plane had struck a bird. After it landed, five bullet holes were...
...been stymied for six years. Initially the problem was just to get the necessary 700 federal state and local permits. Now California environmental authorities are blocking construction of dock equipment to handle the crude, for fear that merely unloading and pumping it into the pipeline would pollute the air...
...allure is undeniable. In all of history, only about 80,000 tons of gold have been mined, no more than could be easily loaded into the holds of four C-5A Air Force transports. Current production adds a mere 1,430 tons annually, less than a 2% increase...
...have vanished with the death of the avantgarde. The very idea of collaborative groupings, once an essential part of modernist practice, seems to have lost its strength−at least for the moment. In fact, it takes some effort to remember the days in the '60s when the air was thick with talk about which movement (Op, Pop, post-painterly abstraction, arte povera, conceptualism, photorealism) was the latest incarnation of history. In an eerie way, the future seems to have joined the past (as far as painting and sculpture are concerned) in a common elephants' graveyard...