Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During the 1960s, when Spock and the first generation he had helped raise noisily protested the nuclear arms buildup and the war in Vietnam, critics blamed Spock's "permissive" book for causing all the uproar. "People who call the book permissive never use the book," Spock replied. "They never read it." He had a point. For all its emphasis on love, Spock's book equally stressed parents' obligations to set limits for their children, to teach them by example and precept "what's right and proper...
...light tone, filled with their effortless performances of the difficult sections. The piece had a cute ending: three light short notes passed from the winds to strings in a playful way. The most noticeable aspect of the orchestra's performance however, was in the Adagio movement when the buildup of dynamic fortissimos provided a symphonic boom that one would expect only from an orchestra of a much larger scale. Yet, the sound of this small chamber orchestra echoed off the walls and filled the audience's ears till sound waves would spill out of the building and into...
Beneath the surface, though, the alignment of forces was shifting. Reagan's big military buildup, and in particular his widely derided attempt to create a Star Wars antimissile defense, were putting heavy pressure on the Soviet Union to keep up. Moscow was vulnerable because the Soviet economy was decaying badly, and its leadership was nearly paralyzed. Only in 1985, after three Kremlin funerals in three years, did a leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, emerge who was realistic and vigorous enough to attempt drastic reforms...
Over the next few years, Fairbanks hopes, he and others may shed light not only on El Nino's past but on its future as well. For if, as many experts expect, the atmosphere warms owing to the buildup of greenhouse gases, the El Nino cycle could very well change. But how? Would it speed up, slow down or stop entirely...
BAGHDAD: Time is running out in the Gulf. Iraq has enough biological weapons to "blow away Tel Aviv," and is playing tricks to hide them ? that's the word from Richard Butler, chief U.N. weapons inspector. Indeed, as the U.S. continues its buildup of hardware in the Persian Gulf, TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson says an attack is at least a week away...