Word: elephantitis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The fledgling designers got a big boost from the government's willingness to bar foreign firms from producing or selling microcomputers and minicomputers in Brazil. Without such a policy, the engineers argued, the domestic computer makers would have no chance to grow. Says Scopus President Edson Fregni, 36: "If...
Like former Interior Secretary James Watt, his friend and onetime boss, Arnett can seldom resist a wisecrack. Nor is the strapping (6 ft. 5 in.), gregarious Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife and Parks shy about his enthusiasm for life in the outdoors. As he showed a...
Touré grandly styled himself the Supreme Father of the Revolution. To Guineans, he was the "Big Elephant," known for his broad shoulders and great stamina. Often his elephantine power was used to crush those he thought opposed him. In the 1970s, he ordered thousands of people arrested. By 1976...
Although the U.S. government ostensibly represents their views, the Micronesians have no representatives in Congress. In March of 1979, the Marshall use established a constitutional government which was approved by popular referendum. A year later the U.S. and Marshall Islands agreed to a pact of free association, giving the Marshall...
Kuralt's official destination that day was a one-man steam sawmill outside Onalaska, owned and operated by Gene Frase, 70, a laconic, down-to-earth man who turns downright poetic when he talks about his conflicting passions: the sweetly efficient steam engine and the lost stands of tall...