Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...matter the wood's emotional state, Nakashima's furniture is distinguished by a tension between naturally shaped slabs of wood and meticulously worked support elements. While the base of a dining table may be crisply machined, Nakashima lets the natural "free edge" of the top planks determine the contour of the piece, instead of sawing a geometrical line...
...biggest employer left is the local school district, which pays no taxes, is $11 million in debt and plans to lay off a quarter of its teachers for the next academic year. The tax base has eroded from $175 million in 1965 to less than $50 million. Property values are so low that the town's tallest structure, the vacant twelve-story Spivey Building, was sold for $25,000. The number of retail businesses is less than 200 and steadily declining. The population, once 80,000, has shrunk to 55,000, 97% black and two-thirds on welfare...
...first alert came from Correspondent David Aikman, a former Beijing bureau chief who had returned there from his present base in Washington to help with our coverage. "The army has made a semi-serious effort to break into Tiananmen Square," he reported. "The police launched a tear-gas attack, and a number of people were injured. Unpleasant incidents are taking place. We saw six people carried off. Huge numbers of bicyclists and pedestrians are in the streets. There is a feeling that a serious move may be tried...
...capital of conspicuous consumption, the land of Lamborghinis, the home of the heated swimming pool. And now, ironically, Hollywood is the chic base for a crusade to help save Planet Earth. From efforts to insert environmental themes into movies and TV to the formation of action groups by the rich and famous, the entertainment industry is mobilizing to help solve the environmental crisis. "We have all realized we're on the front lines," says British rock star Sting, who is campaigning worldwide to save the Brazilian rain forest. "We have access to information and can transmit it through the media...
...Harvard, whose alumni base and student population is larger than all other business schools, there is a great tendency for a dean to focus on outside issues, says Dickinson Professor of Accounting Robert S. Kaplan, who until 1983 served as dean of Carnegie-Mellon Graduate School of Industrial Administration. In addition, he says, business contacts must be fostered to generate source materials for the over five million copies of case studies the school distributes annually...