Word: cooling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just picture this! A sun-baked beach, the spray of the surf, a tall, cool drink, and the suggested reading list of Otto Eckstein. Warburg Professor of Economics...
...With a cool precision not always seen on its flights, Braniff in a matter of hours called in its 75 aircraft, canceled all flights, fired nearly 9,000 employees and threw a police guard around its lavish $70 million headquarters building at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport. Flight 501 was on its way toward Hawaii when it made an unscheduled stop in Santa Barbara, Calif., apparently to decide whether the plane should return to Dallas. The choice to continue was made. Captain Bob Gilchrist, the pilot of what possibly was history's final Braniff flight, 902 from Buenos Aires...
...characters come onstage wearing labels but seldom baring lives. The personal relationships are uninvolving since they never seem more than cocktail-party deep, and Julia is a cotton-candy Casanova. Doleful of mien, downcast of eye, Guide's put-upon wife (Karen Akers) sits with cool rigidity on her cube for what seems like hours. Only when she abandons Guido with a torchy kiss-off number, Be On Your Own, does her pent-up rage kindle some semblance of warmth...
...having work. Nowadays people accept unemployment as a social condition over which they have no control." One reason for this, according to Garraty, is the increased Government role in the economy. Many people now believe that public officials are actually inducing higher levels of joblessness in order to cool down inflation. Unemployment used to be "my" fault. Now it is "their" fault...
Salts occur naturally in the Sphinx's limestone. Because of the hot days and relatively cool nights of the desert, water in the air condenses and dissolves the salts lying near the surface of the statue. When the salts crystallize again, they crack pores within the stone. In recent years, scientists agree, the salt damage has been accelerated by the Aswan High Dam, more than 400 miles upriver. The new dam has raised the water table throughout the Nile Valley. Another villain has been the high-salt mortar used to restore the flaking monument. "Walking...