Word: coversation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MOST BOOK JACKETS are meaningless eye catchers, but the designer of Madeleine L 'Engle's latest novel exhibits a starting perspicacity. Behind plain white lettering. A Severed Wasp is covered with dense tapestry like patterns of violet, lavender and deeper purples, the type of ribbed stripes that appear inside the...
Galbraith elaborates on the illogical practices stemming from this futile superpower rivalry in two other essays. "The Constraints of the Historical Process," which looks at economic aid, and "The Military Nexus," which covers military aid. Both of these chapters argue that United States and Soviet Union assistance to the poorer...
Reconstruction in the camps lags far behind the rest of Beirut. Residents of Shatila can get water only from a single pipe sticking out of the ground on the main road outside the camp. At an intersection where some residents put up a defense against attacking militiamen, a bomb crater...
As the maker of Tylenol, Johnson & Johnson had the most to gain by renewing consumers' trust. Before the murders, Tylenol had 37% of the $1.2 billion painkiller market; that share slipped to 7% during the scare, but has now rebounded to 24%. Tylenol's new wrapping offers triple...
TV Guide, the nation's largest weekly (circ. 17.5 million), has long been known as something of a cheerleader for the industry it covers. For the past few years, however, TV Guide's editors have been trying to introduce a brand of muckraking to their pages. Last May...