Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...across the icy expanses where caribou roam. Loggers have cut ever deeper into the lush forests, and fishermen have cast ever wider nets off the winding shores. From Prudhoe Bay in the north to Anchorage in the south, swarms of settlers have tapped the state's wealth as fast as they could...
...anyone who has ever played golf should feel sorry for Hoch. If we had a dollar for all the easy putts we have missed, we would have enough money to solve the federal deficit and the Latin American debt crisis, with plenty left over to purchase a few fast-food franchises...
Bussewitz, in his tours, emphasizes the proximity of nearby Boston and the Blue Hills south of the arboretum. In the city, he says, it's easy to forget just how close nature is and just how fast its beauty is disappearing...
...Today we still have anti-gay and lesbian policies, but they are in retreat," Frank said. "I believe that prejudice is eroding, although it's not eroding nearly fast enough...
...idea the Western market tends to promote, that the Soviet Union is a mine of little-known contemporary pictorial genius, is mostly sales talk. Stalinism deformed or aborted two generations of artistic talent, and no culture recovers so fast. The sense of a time lag is acute to the visitor. Certainly, there is no shortage of artists doing earnestly secondhand versions of last year's, or last decade's, Western model. But there is also some extremely serious talent: Natalia Nesterova, for instance, with her brooding groups of figures, locked in thick, silvery paint and dense with melancholy...