Word: atop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...morning last week, in a dining room atop the Time & Life Building in New York City, nine of TIME'S editors, correspondents and writers assembled for breakfast and a conversation with Mexico's Foreign Minister, Bernardo Sepulveda Amor. For more than an hour, Sepulveda answered questions about his country's relations with the U.S., and about the unrest in Central America. By the time the last coffees were finished, the TIME hosts had received yet another reminder that, as Chief of Correspondents Richard Duncan says, "Leaders and their informal conversations are usually much more interesting than their...
Along the banks of the Caniapiscau and Koksoak rivers, where the caribou were overwhelmed by rushing water, bloated carcasses piled atop one another. A sizable number of animals were swept over a waterfall and drowned. Some environmentalists called the deaths "a major catastrophe." The question remained: Why had the rivers risen to deadly levels? Eskimo leaders and others blamed Hydro-Quebec, the province's government-owned utility. They charged that it had allowed too much water to spill over the dam that controls the flow of the two rivers. The Eskimos, or Innuit, as they are called in Canada...
Twenty years ago, he carefully slipped off his shoes before climbing atop a university police car so as not to damage campus property. The roof buckled some anyway. So did the University of California, Berkeley, as Mario Savio ignited the Free Speech Movement, which in turn lit the fires of nearly a decade of campus activism. Last week, graying and more introspective but still burning with the spirit of protest, Savio, now 41, was back at Berkeley to celebrate the 1964 birth of the Free Speech Movement. Some 3,000 middle-aging rebels and current students gathered at the scene...
...press was treated to free food, such as shrimp salad lunches and drinks by the GOP, while they could buy a plate of rice and beans at Tent City. The Republicans provided free phones, typewriters, tv's and work areas, while there was a bank of pay phones atop a steep hill at Tent City...
Newer weapons and nicer digs are fine, but the soldier's best friend these days is probably the almighty buck. A dollar bought 1.8 deutsche marks in 1980; late last week the exchange rate was 2.85. Coming atop Reagan Administration-inspired military pay increases, the better exchange rate means that a newly minted U.S. first lieutenant now has about twice as much local currency to spend as four years ago. In 1980 a monthly base pay of $1,163.10 would translate to DM 2,093; today's base pay of $1,437.60 will...