Word: fogging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fog rises this morning from the carcass of Sarajevo. The city has a clinging, ragged aura about it. Fog seeps through shattered buildings and seems to puff through the bullet holes in windows...
...production is not unconvincing, but director Gilbert's failure to very the onstage mood makes for three hours of restless seat-sliding. Perhaps a more traditional interpretation would have been more successful than the Huntington's, whose only connection with O'Neill is the occasional blast of the fog horn that reminds the audience of the setting...
COAL HAS LONG HELD A CENTRAL PLACE IN BRITISH life. It powered the 19th century Industrial Revolution, heated homes, generated electricity and even caused the fog in London. In 1913 more than 1 million miners worked in 3,265 pits in Britain. But that era is history. In a stunning move, British Coal announced that it is closing 31 collieries and laying off 30,000 workers. By March 1993, all that will remain of the once powerful and proud industry will be 19 working pits employing fewer than 20,000 miners...
...This fog may finally start to clear because of two studies done in Sweden. The first, led by epidemiologists Maria Feychting and Anders Ahlbom of Stockholm's Karolinska Institute, looked at everyone who lived within 300 m (328 yd.) of a high-tension line in Sweden from 1960 to '85. Although the investigators could find no evidence of an increased cancer threat for adults, they did detect a higher risk of leukemia in children. The second study, led by Birgitta Floderus of Sweden's National Institute of Occupational Health, linked on-the-job exposure to electromagnetic fields and leukemia...
...beneath the fog, there is a real debate, as St. Louis somewhat unexpectedly revealed. In the end, however, the vote for the presidency is a complicated, subtle act. "People vote for President by feel," says Robert Teeter, the President's campaign chairman. "There are hundreds, maybe thousands of subconscious factors that create a general perception of a presidential candidate." Unfortunately for Bush, many of those subconscious factors are working against him. Many things the President has said and done over the years appear to have settled negatively in the electorate's brain, an accumulation of winces ready to cause...