Word: apartness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Apart from the political statements, the news conference offered many insights into how the hostages were faring. Conwell seemed to be holding up the best, perhaps because he is an experienced hand in the Middle East, having spent much of the past decade in Arab and Asian countries working for oil service companies. In introducing himself, Conwell said, "My family is in Corfu, Greece. I send them my love, my affections and hope to God that they're strong and that they can wait for me to get back home. I'm ready." Cullins also addressed his family, telling them...
Sandwiched between those developments was word that Burroughs and Sperry, two older computer makers that have long lived in IBM's shadow, were engaging in merger talks in hopes of competing more effectively together than apart. Such a combination would create the second largest manufacturer of data processing machines...
...says McGrady. Neither she nor Hartman plans any major tinkering with GMA's format. "We're not looking at Today's ratings and saying, 'Oh, good,' " Hartman admits. "But it doesn't worry me in the sense of 'Gracious, we have to hit the panic button. We've fallen apart.' We haven...
...Chilean Composer and Musicologist Juan Allende-Blin reconstructed and orchestrated about 400 bars of the opera. Debussy's brooding music is spheres apart from the pastoral beauties of Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun or the nautical tone painting of La Mer. Indeed, in its consummate wedding of text to music, the work Usher most closely resembles is Debussy's only completed opera, the shadowy symbolist drama Pelleas et Melisande. The tormented Roderick Usher, Poe's unhappy protagonist, is depicted in agonized music that is drenched by the misery in the man's soul. Debussy intended Usher to last...
...District Court Judge HAROLD GREENE at George Washington University Law Center in Washington: "There is also in this country a strain of violence and vigilantism apart from the law, which stems from the civilizing of the wilderness not long ago as historical time is measured. If all these strains are to be contained, if centrifugal forces are not to tear the nation apart, there must be centers of gravity apart from the shifting political majorities. The law, represented by its guardians, the judges and lawyers, is one such fixed star...