Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That fear intensified last week as the Administration appeared to be in a muddle over one of the most pressing ecological issues: global warming. James Hansen, a top scientist in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, was all set to brief a congressional committee on how the buildup of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere could create a greenhouse effect and produce severe climate changes. Hansen believes this greenhouse warming may have already started...
...Lear. "Often intelligent women feel embarrassed about concentrating on fashion. They shouldn't. It isn't trivial." Though a feminist, she readily exalts the sexual power of feminine beauty. Blissfully she recalls lounging about a country-club pool in her 20s. "I was wearing a fuchsia top and bottom, brief for those times. My body was just right. Well, the men just kept on coming over to me. At that moment, beauty was power." As the priestess of age preaches her formula for mature beauty to Madison Avenue, once again heads are snapping...
...brief moment at Monday night's City Council meeting, one of the strangest political alliances in Cambridge history seemed to coalesce...
Philip Larkin, the pre-eminent poet in English of his time, died, after a brief struggle with cancer, in 1985, at age 63. Soon afterward his diaries were shredded, as he had instructed, at the library of England's Hull University, where he had worked for 30 years in self-elected obscurity. His manuscripts and unpublished poems escaped a similar fate thanks to a contradiction in his will: one clause called for the destruction of these papers, while another allowed trustees of the estate the right to decide which ones merited publication. Given the choice between guillotine and press...
...fracture lines in Congress are already forming along party lines. Twenty-five Senators and 115 Congressmen put their names to a brief in the Webster case supporting Roe. All but 17 were Democrats. But Republican strategists do not expect abortion to threaten the G.O.P. advantage in presidential years. "I don't think you'll see the Republican Party or the White House getting involved in all these state fights over it," says G.O.P. consultant Charles Black. "In a national election I would expect abortion to be one of the second-tier issues, not a top-tier burning...