Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Antarctica a frozen trove of natural resources? Scientists first saw evidence 15 years ago that there might be oil beneath the area's coastal waters, and some geologists believe any such deposits could be the world's last untapped "elephants," as huge fields are called. Yet no provision existed to regulate exploration for petroleum or for anything else in Antarctica, a continent that has been run more or less by multinational committee since 1959. Now representatives of 33 nations have finally agreed on a treaty to govern development of all natural wealth on -- and under -- the southern land mass. Says...
...Buried beneath this ethnic jousting is a serious issue. Over the years, affirmative-action programs have become diluted as more and more groups have been awarded minority status. If the Lalonde bill makes it through the state senate and is signed into law, roughly half of Louisiana's 4 million residents will belong to officially designated minority groups...
From his Spaso House residence, the President tells Hugh Sidey of the wonder he felt in his remarkable odyssey to Red Square. -- Beneath the summit ceremony was a more subtle form of posturing. -- What lies behind the impasse on arms control. -- Nancy vs. Raisa, Round 4. -- Reagan gets a nyet, not from Gorbachev but from a Russian clergyman. See NATION...
...House dining hall, captured Tarver's Harvard student and Boston musician identities. Full-time punks, local musicans, and Harvard's own punks-by-night-history-majors-by-day stood side by side to listen to Bullet LaVolta. Hundreds of students, local skatepunks, and die-hard Boston scenesters slam-danced beneath the portraits of John Adams. Outside on Mt. Auburn Street, crowds of fans in combat boots gathered to cool off between sets...
...fire reduced Yale's metal-framed shanty--which originally consisted of three buildings when students erected it in early 1986 but was later connected together--to bits of wood and twisted steel. The blaze, which caused no injuries, cracked the stone beneath the shanty, engulfed nearby trees and planters and slightly damaged an adjacent memorial to the anti-apartheid movement...