Word: genera
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...museum houses vast collections. The mammals department has 85 percent of all mammal genera, according to Maria E. Rutzmoser, acting director of the mammal collection. "You have certain masterpieces of art as part of a national treasure and this is a planetary treasure," she says...
Brinkley, for example, writes in Harper's that McCloy "had not initiated the relocation plan, and he was not a major factor in the decision to implement it." Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson strongly supported the proposal, as did the West Coast military command and California Attorney Genera Earl Warren, he notes...
...have to work fast to resolve their remaining conflicts. The most immediate potential flash point was Radom, a grimy industrial city 60 miles south of Warsaw. On Thursday, members of the local Solidarity chapter unanimously voted to launch a two-hour work stoppage this week-and a province-wide genera strike on March 23-unless the government begins talks on a set of 19 demands. Foremost among them: the sacking of the provincial governor and other officials responsible for the brutal suppression of the price riots...
...gasoline and other petroleum products shot up by 50% to 100%, bank interest rates by 22%. "It is true that the new measures will produce higher prices and therefore hardships," said one government economist, "but inflation was doing that anyway, so the situation has changed little for the genera public." In truth, Demirel had to do something-anything-to straighten out the economy. Inflation was approaching 100%, foreign exchange reserves have fallen below $500 million, and the country had virtually no credit standing in Western banking circles...