Word: ende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recently acquired computer is 400 words. If he produces more, he notes with a laugh, he invariably writes less the following day. On average it takes Naipaul about a year to compose a book. "I'm with it all the time, anxious to get to the end," he says with a hint of dread. "When I'm finished, I do nothing. It takes a week before I even begin to feel tired." To keep in shape, he performs a daily exercise taught to him years ago by a family pundit in Trinidad. It is a difficult yoga bend that leaves...
...private contractors made unusually good progress in cleaning up the uncanny string of spills. In Narragansett Bay, where the Greek tanker World Prodigy struck a reef and spewed 420,000 gals. of No. 2 fuel oil, most of the residue had evaporated or was rounded up by week's end. While the fuel may have long-term toxic effects on some marine life, fishermen were able to harvest shellfish for the first time since the accident. After an initial investigation, the ship's captain, Iakovos Georgudis, was charged with one misdemeanor count of discharging pollutants in violation of the Clean...
...provided the U.S. with 37% of its oil supplies, up from 27% in 1985. Since foreign oil enters the country mostly by tanker, growing imports only increase the odds of new spills. According to projections by Ohio Democrat Mary Oakar, chairwoman of the House Economic Stabilization Subcommittee, by the end of the 1990s as much as 90% of the oil consumed in the U.S. could arrive by tanker, up from about 65% now. A serious, renewed campaign of energy conservation would help stem that tanker flow and pay other fringe benefits as well. But as long as foreign crude remains...
After nine days of trying to form a coalition to end the parliamentary stalemate that followed Greece's elections on June 18, both hospitalized caretaker Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou and conservative leader Constantine Mitsotakis dropped their insistence on being appointed head of the new government. At that, Communist Party chief Harilaos Florakis, leader of the Alliance of the Left and Progress, which holds the balance of power between the two rivals, announced that he would support a three-month government with Mitsotakis' New Democracy Party...
...there no end to the dark doings of Jose Antonio Zorrilla Perez? Last month the former head of the powerful Federal Security Directorate was arrested in Mexico as a suspect in the 1984 assassination of journalist Manuel Buendia. Now a U.S. grand jury is investigating allegations that Zorrilla was also involved in the death of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent Enrique Camarena Salazar in 1985. According to DEA informants, Zorrilla knew in advance of Camarena's kidnaping. One source added that Camarena's interrogator was in direct contact with Zorrilla. If proved, the allegations would support the theory that Camarena...