Word: constant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...journalist, covering the travels of a major figure in the news is a coveted assignment. It can also be a fairly brutal experience. Although there are exhilarating moments of spectacle or significance, there are also logistical nightmares, frustrating stretches of tedium and constant weariness. John Paul II's ten-day U.S. tour was among the most demanding ever for TIME journalists. A five-member TIME team began shadowing the Pope upon his arrival in Miami on Sept. 10. Rome Bureau Chief Sam Allis, who will have traveled 18,000 miles with the Pope in twelve days, is groggy and impressed...
...film has no story; the plot isn't juicy. Chronos is simply a constant, startling stream of images showing time at work through nature's changes. The concept of altered time is so intriguing, the photography so unusual and the music so haunting that the surreal experience of Chronos shouldn't be missed...
...American men earn more than women. The good news is that the average earnings of women who work full time were up, to 70% of men's wages in 1986. In 1979, by contrast, the figure was only 62%, a statistic that had remained more or less constant since 1973. The advance in earnings amounted to "tremendous progress," according to Gordon Green, assistant chief of the bureau's population division...
Jackson's message may be less immediately threatening this time, but the candidate himself is much the same. Still hopelessly disorganized, he drives himself to exhaustion seven days a week. Jackson gets constant reinforcement. Crowds swiftly collect around him. He is treated like a monarch. A snap of the finger brings him a newspaper. A nod of the head brings a glass of lemonade. Oblivious of the hour, he rouses people with phone calls from 6 in the morning to long after midnight. Often he holds planes until the last minute before he arrives to take his first-class seat...
...between Iraq and Iran, however, Iraqi Shi'ites, who make up almost 60% of their country's population, have chosen to be Iraqis first and Shi'ites second. The ancient animosity between Arabs and Persians apparently transcends religious sympathies. Nonetheless, the Iraqis receive constant reminders of Iranian Shi'ite fervor. Tehran's major offensives are named Karbala, after the place where Hussein died, and captured Iranian soldiers proudly show off the "keys to Heaven" issued to them when they enlisted. The celestial keys: dog tags. Observes an Iraqi official: "The Iranians are still fighting the Battle of Hussein...