Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most artists consider the destruction of their work a tragedy. Photographer Brett Weston has always considered it a necessity. Best known for haunting semi-abstract nature studies in the tradition of his famous father Edward, Weston vowed for years to destroy his negatives so that others could not make new prints from them after his death...
...republics were fervent fighters, wanting to destroy the center and take over its functions. But as soon as they succeeded, the reform process abruptly stopped...
...U.S.S.R.'s treaty obligations, including commitments to reduce both nuclear and conventional arms; 3) they will strongly urge the successor states to preserve a unified command over nuclear weapons and offer money and technical assistance to dismantle any and all warheads that the republics want to destroy -- Secretary of State Baker set out over the weekend on a five-day, five-city swing through the former U.S.S.R. for exactly that purpose; 4) they | will speed up and coordinate aid to any republics that meet these criteria. As Baker put it, "We will continue to work with reformers wherever we find...
...Bother to Knock (a movie rated "don't bother to see"). "You have built up a Svengali," the letter read in part, "and if you are going to progress with your career and become as important talent-wise as you have publicity-wise then you must destroy this Svengali before it destroys...
...Ronald Reagan's White House, there was no greater sin than to suggest that America could improve its competitiveness by stoking private industry with federal money. Reagan's free-market economists launched search-and- destroy missions whenever such "industrial policy" proposals were floated in Washington. Never mind that many strategic industries in Japan and Europe, boosted at crucial moments by government support, were winning market share from their American counterparts. Reagan's opposition to industrial policy was so fierce that the expression itself had become politically incorrect by the decade's end. During the 1988 campaign, George Bush derided such...