Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...children's playground named after the erstwhile Supreme. But when the event's promoters announced that a thunderstorm had washed away the profits, there were rumblings from Mayor Edward Koch's office suggesting that it was not just Ross who had been soaked. The dark cloud hanging over the affair turned out to have a silver lining last week when Ross presented Koch with a $250,000 check from her own pocket. "It's for the kids," said the singer, who donned an orange city-department-of-parks slicker to show that there were no hard...
...concerns the one dark cloud that hangs over us and causes the most concern--the fear of unclear war--I believe that there are grounds for optimism here, too. It is true that Soviet leadership gives every indication of making active preparations for war. The pace of its weapons' procurement programs is nothing short of frenetic, while the domestic hate campaign against the United States is assuming very ugly dimensions. Soviet defensive preparations, especially the construction of shelters to protect cadres and industries against unclear attack, also give cause for worry, since they are not matched by anything on this...
...conclave in Washington that the detonation of less than half the megatons in U.S. and Soviet arsenals could send up a cloud of smoke and dust that would block out the sun's light, producing a "nuclear winter" of death from freezing and starvation. Some 100 million Americans watched The Day After, a frightful TV visualization of nuclear blast, fire and radiation.* In Western Europe, demonstrations against the missiles made up in hysteria for anything they might have lacked in numbers. Hundreds of thousands of peace marchers paraded in West Germany, some wearing mourning clothes or displaying faces painted white...
Reich began by conceding that the whole concept of industrial policy is being lost in a cloud of confusion. Said he: "Industrial policy is one of those issues that have gone from relative obscurity to near meaninglessness without any intervening period of coherence...
...first article puts together a list of alleged economic and military connections between Israel for its ties with the racist state. In his second article he attempts to justify singling out Israel over other countries for having these relations. This justification fails miserably as his evidence disappears in a cloud of unproven assertions...