Word: caving
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...subject, Designing Pictorial Symbols, released last week by Watson-Guptill. (A previous book by Holmes, Designer's Guide to Creating Charts & Diagrams, was published last year.) Holmes' new book contains extensive research into the history of graphic symbols. "It goes back to picture writing, hobo signs, even cave paintings of the Southwest American Indians," he explains. "And, of course, flags, which helped armies recognize their own people in olden times...
...week until Congress finishes wrestling with the budget, have begun to deflate tax-reform proponents on Capitol Hill. "I'm losing my enthusiasm," says House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski, whose backing is essential to tax reform. He is particularly put off by the Administration's cave-in to the oil lobby. "I told Jim Baker that the measure of the man will be where you go with energy. But that didn't penetrate...
...strike, assailants boarded a ferry off the northern coast of Sri Lanka, near Jaffna, and hacked 39 Tamils to death with axes, swords and knives. The Sri Lankan navy has denied accusations that it was involved in the slaughter; the same day, police surprised Tamil rebels hiding in a cave in the Eastern province and killed 20 guerrillas...
Does all this mean that journalism has turned into a profession for teetotalers? Said Managing Editor Ray Cave, nursing a modest Scotch: "Nope." We'll drink to that...
...generation of viewers may be just as delighted with the shows Gleason has pulled out of his Ali Baba's cave in Florida. One of Ralph's more tender lines to Alice could be applied to each of the four star players: "Baby, you're the greatest...