Word: destructionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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It was an act of God that devastated St. Croix last week, blowing houses into splinters, closing down the hospital, shutting off water and electricity, leaving residents and tourists in a state of panic. But the island's second wave of destruction was the work of man. When the skies...
Within a year he marries, not knowing that Kim has escaped to Bangkok -- and borne him a son. Then a veterans' group puts him in contact with his Vietnamese family. Chris comes to Thailand, meaning to meet his responsibilities, instead completing Kim's psychic destruction. Her last desperate act is...
Quincy House Master Michael Shinagel, said he was unconcerned about the hazardous waste. "It is simply oil that will be trucked away. It's not going to be a problem," he said. "We are more concerned with the noise and destruction of our private life that the new housing might...
DESPITE the tragedies which pursue Jasmine--one character says to her, "you are a tornado. You're leaving a path of destruction behind you."--there is a lot of love and warmth coursing through this tale. As an undocumented au pair girl in New York, she adopts the name Jase...
In the other huge project, Polonoroeste, the government is trying to develop the sprawling western state of Rondonia. The program, backed by subsidies and built around a highway through the state called BR-364, was designed to relieve population pressures in southern Brazil. But Polonoroeste has made Rondonia the area...