Word: ashes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pain caused by economic and political transformation. Five years of double- and sometimes triple-digit inflation wiped out savings, privatization eliminated jobs, the collapse of the police state allowed crime to flourish, and cash-strapped governments cut back on social services. "Conspicuous consumption," says Oxford University's Timothy Garton Ash, has coincided with "conspicuous immiserization...
Charles A. Ash, a senior who helped establish the center, says the new building combines under one roof an array of previously scattered services, including health insurance counselling agencies...
...branch of Cambridge Hospital will soon set up a clinic within the center, Ash adds...
...Cambridge Senior Center supersedes the Pearl Street Center, which Ash describes as "a grim institution." Ash calls the center long-overdue, especially because many towns in the area have already established well-equipped senior centers...
Juanita might have rested undisturbed for centuries more had it not been for the rumblings of a nearby volcano. For the past five years it has spewed ash over Mount Ampato, melting its snowcap and causing the ground to shift. The movement caused Juanita's ceremonial platform to collapse, and she literally tumbled off. Zarate had to rappel down a ravine to retrieve gold and silver statues, festooned with feathers, that were part of the traditional offering to the gods. Reinhard had scaled dozens of Andean peaks over the past 15 years searching for just such a treasure...