Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lived through that tumultuous year, today's 20-year-olds study the events of 1968 in their history classes. Art director Christine Castigliano was only nine years old the first time around. But for her the complex year is captured dramatically by the special edition's cover image: two daisies and a bullet. The stark contrast "showed how jarring a time it was," she says. "I wanted to symbolize the energy and the explosiveness...
Such are the rewards of cynicism and cowardice. The passions aroused by the pay fray may have been extraordinary, but the duplicitous behavior it spawned is typical. Running for cover has become such natural behavior that Congressmen will go to extremes to duck accountability. The only way Congress could muster the moxie to close 86 outmoded military bases was first to appoint a commission whose recommendations will automatically take effect in April unless rescinded by both houses. To mask its inability to confront the deficit, Congress created the Gramm-Rudman guillotine, which arbitrarily cuts the budget if compromise fails...
...Government is obliged to spend $40 billion to cover bailout cases to which federal regulators are already committed, including 205 savings and loans that the Government closed or sold last year. The $50 billion bond issue would be spent to liquidate or auction off the remaining 300 or more insolvent savings and loans. Those failing thrifts will be isolated from the rest of the industry by bringing them under a new agency called the Resolution Trust Corp., which will oversee their cleanup...
...renovated nightelub, will sponsor a double-feature, showing the Indiana Jones classic Raiders of the Lost Ark and the John Belushi/Dan Ackroyd hit, The Blues Brothers. If you missed the TV version of Raiders last Sunday night, you can catch it at the Cabot House JCR tonight for $2. Cover is $1 for members...
Tommorrow night Cookin' presents a dance concert with Dead Weight Loss. A student band, Dead Weight Loss plays cover hits from REM, the Police and David Bowie. Cover charge is $2 for non-members, $1 for members...