Word: chernobyls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...More persuasive than Kuchma's warning of impending social explosion, however, will be Gore's visit to the decaying sarcophagus around the damaged Chernobyl nuclear reactor. "Kuchma will show that Chernobyl threatens all of Europe and the world," says Zarakhovich. "And then he'll say, 'Sorry, there's nothing Ukraine can do about it without money...
...succeeding Otto Fuerbringer, the trend toward cover stories about issues, ideas and events grew more pronounced. Covers on the birth-control pill in 1967 and the battle over busing to achieve desegregation in 1975 focused on the issues more than on the protagonists; photographs of the meltdown at Chernobyl in 1986 and the San Francisco earthquake in 1989 dramatized events. Instead of a Man or Woman of the Year for 1982, TIME designated the computer as Machine of the Year. Amid growing anxiety about the environment, the "Endangered Earth" was named Planet of the Year...
DEADLY MELTDOWN Fear spreads from Chernobyl...
...from two banners carried by the demonstrators. Your readers could gain some insights with translations of some of the slogans that appear in your photographs. One states, POWER TO THE PEOPLES AND NOT TO THE PARTIES! Another says, THANK YOU, CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE CPSU, FOR THE LIGHT OF CHERNOBYL, WHICH HAS ILLUMINATED THE ENTIRE COUNTRY AND IMMERSED IT INTO DARKNESS. And then there is the one proclaiming, I HAVE A DEVILISH DESIRE FOR A BIT OF SAUSAGE. LUDMILLA THORNE, Director Soviet Studies, Freedom House New York City...
...firms used to rebound quickly after bad news, August has been the long goodbye. Philip Morris plunged from $104.66 a share to $88, and RJR Nabisco from $30.75 to $25.50. Loews Corp., parent of Lorillard Tobacco, slipped from $80.66 to $74.75. "This has all the makings of a tobacco Chernobyl," says Ackerman. Not if you ask the accountants. Overall, profits and sales in the industry are up this year, and sales abroad are strong...