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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...date on the cave drawings at Lascaux or on the first drumbeat. But photography has a birthdate of sorts, 1839, the year it was ushered loudly into the world in a clamor of patents and the claims of two separate inventors, Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre in France and William Henry Fox Talbot in England. For that reason 1989 is being marked as a sesquicentennial -- 150 years in which photographers have remade the world in their own images...
Prosecutors insisted that disclosure of the documents would hurt national security. They offered to make available a summary of the documents, but Sullivan objected that it "omits critical details." On Friday, Gesell nonetheless accepted the prosecution's offer and, with that settled, designated Tuesday as the date for the trial to start. But the fracas exemplifies the kind of dispute that may interrupt the trial again and again...
...date of the lottery approaches, it appears less and less likely that the new system will be changed...
Tower: Funny you should ask George. I was just thinking about that last night at the Palm when my date and I were polishing off our second bottle of wine. I suddenly remembered my doctor told me to have only two glasses a day. Usually, I'm a man of such discipline--I don't know what's happening to me. I feel a little like a rebel, like those days in the '60's when you and I were the only Republicans in Texas, and we used to joke about holding our convention in a phone booth...
Washington greeted the news as the inevitable result of Managua's social and military policies, but hinted it might be willing to negotiate with Ortega at a future date. Opposition leaders, for their part, were disappointed by the government's failure to address political issues that would guarantee democratic reforms. The Sandinistas, Insisting that their adoption of traditional economics implied no shift from revolutionary politics, are betting that their harsh measures can bring long-term economic viability to their regime...