Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...perfectly happy to discuss their plans with anyone who's remotely curious. The only problem is that the local, national and international media, not to mention the proverbial man on the street, are far more interested in K-man wonderment than substantive stands. Complaints that the herd of dark horses don't get enough airtime reached a new high recently. One of their number related that he had been overjoyed to get a call from an out-of-town newspaper, only to realize that the reporter just wanted to talk to him about Kennedy's candidacy...
...steep slide early in the week occurred when members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries confirmed that the group has in effect abandoned any effort to curb its production, thus ensuring a worsening global glut. Meeting in Vienna under dark snow clouds, a committee of oil ministers from five OPEC nations--Venezuela, Indonesia, Iraq, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates--declined to propose any new output limit for the 13- member group. Their decision goes along with the strategy being pursued by Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other wealthy oil producers, who are flooding the market with excess petroleum. These...
...million years ago. The entire rock formation was long thought to be virtually devoid of fossils and thus of little interest to paleontologists. In fact, says Neil Shubin, 25, a graduate student in biology at Harvard, the site they discovered "looks like Rocky Road ice cream. It's dark rock absolutely splattered with bone." Says his partner, Geologist Paul Olsen, 32, of Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory: "We were shocked by the number of fossils...
...slices decisively through rich Iowa farmland, where the dirt is almost as dark as the two-lane asphalt ribbon that bisects the table-flat prairie west of Fort Dodge. The highway dips, then rises gently to Sac City, a town devastated by plunging crop prices, sagging spirits and the near collapse of rural America in the past decade...
...advocate the abandonment of the democratic process is to advocate its only alternative: rule by might. Whether this may mean a coup or a revolution, it means a dark future for Philippine politics. Neither Corazon Aquino, the moderates, or the Philippine people will benefit...