Word: environmental
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Jaruzelski offered Walesa seven of 21 Cabinet posts, including Deputy Prime Minister and the ministries of health, industry, environment and housing. Again Walesa refused, on the grounds that only a Solidarity government would have enough support to carry out the tough austerity measures needed to ease Poland's economic crisis...
While fond of his cat, British biologist Peter Churcher looked askance at its practice of dragging small mammals and birds into his Bedfordshire house and devouring them under the kitchen table "to the sound of crunching bones." One of Churcher's associates, John Lawton, a professor of community ecology at...
He remembers finding Washington a "hostile environment." The campaign operation was often a mud wrestle among contending egos. "I was the loyalty thermometer," he says. Frequently he cut through bureaucratic inertia to get necessary decisions made. And he was ever leery of leaks and resentful of the personal ties to...
Other artists in the show use the real world as raw material. Charred, rough-edged and yellowed, Shinro Ohtake's mixed-media assemblages and collage- filled scrapbooks seek an awkward beauty in combinations of found objects and unwanted rubbish. Such pieces as his Family Tree, 1986-88, serve as vivid...
46 Environment