Word: flame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...large cast of guests, servants and outsiders so that everyone seems singular, from the lord of the manor to the local poacher. When these sharply etched characters gather in the field for a hunt, they seem to inhabit a fine old photograph, illuminated from behind by an approaching flame...
...Consumer Product Safety Commission. The eight-year-old body, smallest of the Government's health and safety agencies, with a staff of 900, keeps watch over some 15,000 consumer products. In the past four years, CPSC has banned the use of Tris, a cancer-causing flame retardant used in children's clothing, got companies to recall asbestos-insulated hair dryers and stopped the use of benzene in paint removers. The commission must be renewed by act of Congress before October, and the Administration is lobbying to either have it killed outright or buried in the generally...
...catastrophic confrontation. Said Walesa, who continually looked to Wyszynski for inspiration and advice: "The Cardinal's teachings brought us to the point we all dreamed about." Last week millions of Poles could say the same thing about a man who kept alive the dream of freedom and the flame of Christian faith in a Marxist state...
...announcement fanned into flame opposition that began smoldering in early March, when it became clear that the Administration was indeed likely to include the AWACS in the arms sale. Israeli officials initially expressed little more than token opposition to the sale, but they have been convinced by the country's military leaders that AWACS in Saudi hands could lay bare all of Israel's military secrets to Arab enemies. Prime Minister Menachem Begin reacted to the sale announcement last week by giving U.S. Ambassador Samuel Lewis a memorable private tongue-lashing. Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres, Begin...
...name in the West in 1979, cultural bureaucrats sought to enlist his son in an effort to discredit the book and thus keep the official Shostakovich legend untarnished. Moscow acquaintances suggested that Maxim's frustration with his official role as keeper of his father's flame, and the increasing difficulty of obtaining visas for travel abroad, may have prompted him to take the step his troubled father had always found unthinkable...