Word: facedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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It has been more than 60 years since a school went up in Chelsea, a crumbling city of 26,000 immigrants and blue-collar workers on Boston Harbor. Even now, with the state offering to pay 90% of the costs, the city board of aldermen refuses to spend local funds...
As the press flocked to the site, the oil companies, biologists and Eskimos discovered they had unleashed a juggernaut they could not control. The Eskimos quickly abandoned their seasonal hunt for endangered bowhead whales in the belief that it would not look good on network news. The oil companies found...
As for the biologists, they faced the choice of being killjoys -- Morris at one point said that if polar bears tried to get at the whales, he would not interfere -- or putting aside wildlife policy in the interest of public relations. In fact, once the animals were given their nicknames...
Whoa. Kill members of one protected species to save three of another? What was going on here? In his nightly commentary, NBC's John Chancellor singled out the sound of the whales' labored breathing, a reminder of another mammal's desperate urge to live, as the signal that triggered the...
"I will learn a great deal and will be faced with the opportunity to be involved with major public and social policy questions," Simmons said. "I now have the chance to become more directly involved in the issues of our time."