Word: domains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been a rough year for football. The extended strike by players took a sizeable bite out of the season, forcing the league to rearrange the playoff format and--alas--allow just one week instead of two for Super Bowl hype. Complex questions over anti-trust and eminent domain arose after the relocation of a team. And widespread reports of rampant cocaine use among players rocked the league. In short, the seamy side of football emerged this year, making clear that the game is merely a business with plenty of greed and corruption...
...that even if critics get their way and the Pentagon budget is cut by $5 billion to $10 billion, the slash will hardly make a sliver's worth of difference in a projected deficit of $150 billion. The Defense Secretary has grown so protective of his budget domain that he adamantly refuses to heed requests from Congress to suggest parings. "I don't want to participate in a process of that kind," Weinberger says flatly. "I don't have cuts to propose...
Outside the domain of scientists, new efforts have been made to inform the general public about the ecological wonders of rain forests and the need to save them. A documentary called "Korup" deals with the representative Korup forest in Cameroon. The film has been distributed to 70 countries, and will premiere in 30 capital cities...
...collector. The jeweled colors and flattened space of the court miniature, the way it filters all natural detail in order to preserve it within the twining conventions of artifice, and above all the sense it provides of looking past the edge of the ordinary world into a privileged domain-all this is echoed and modified in his own small paintings...
...just a month shy of his 94th birthday. And then Hilary's father, Poet Edgar Lee Masters, is interred in Illinois four years earlier, at age 82. This narrative order runs counter to chronology, of course, but it remains true to the odd regressions of memory, that domain where the last events are most recent and hence preludes to all that went before. Masters' relatives grew old while he grew up; to recapture their pasts, he travels backward from the present...