Word: furnishes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sebe has seized upon the dubious gift with ebullience. Although unemployment in Ciskei has been running at 50%, its leader remains recklessly spendthrift. Just two weeks ago he announced a lavish scheme to furnish his dirt-poor homeland with an international airport, a harbor and an air force. Such tragicomic aspirations and the tyrannical rule that enforces them have made Sebe's fief something of an embarrassment even to its stepmother. Said the moderate Johannesburg Star: "Ciskei has become a byword for all the worst excesses of banana republics...
Even so tethered a watchdog was too fierce for the New York Times, a worthy paper much given to solemn defenses of its own probity. To submit to inside-the-craft judgments, the Times said, "would encourage an atmosphere of regulation. We will not furnish information or explanations to the council." That powerful opposition effectively doomed the council from the start. Richard Salant, then president of CBS News, criticized the Times for being "so goddam hard-nosed. I take the position that everyone has the right to look over my shoulder except the Government." But, Salant added, many...
...uncovered is that most art thefts are pulled off with as little difficulty as the Caravaggio caper in Palermo. In Italy alone, 44,000 works of art disappear each year. Indeed, during Watson's dogged investigation, enough masterpieces were purloined from churches, galleries and private homes to furnish a museum. The odds on retrieving the Caravaggio were minuscule. In Italy, only 10% of recorded stolen art is ever recovered; in the U.S. the rate...
...extraordinarily real. The novel does offer an unparalleled portrayal of the life of New York's leisurely class in the '80s; Schwamm's setting includes Max Ernst dresses, original Bauhaus furniture and Balducci's. The snubs and gossip at the parties and charity auctions which so bore Nora furnish some of the most absorbing information we receive, and here the narrative commentary finally achieves the appropriate level of irony...
...when it outbid West Germany's Adidas for the right to sponsor the U.S. track and field team from 1981 through 1988. Vitale is paying $8.2 million to the team to outfit the American athletes in exchange for the right to proclaim Kappa a team sponsor. Kappa will furnish the team's competitive attire, while Levi Strauss, the U.S. Olympic team's overall clothing sponsor, will provide the track and field athletes with such items as presentation suits to be worn on the victory stand. The arrangement, says Vitale, has already paid dividends in the form...