Word: hotly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...policy. In February the U.S. will be host to an international conference on climate change in Washington. Bush is expected to address the conference. The temperature in the hall will probably be more comfortable than it was when he gave his "I am an environmentalist" speech in the hot summer of 1988. But unless he has more to show on the greenhouse effect than rhetoric, the President should be mopping his brow anyway -- at least in embarrassment, and perhaps in anxiety for the future of the planet...
...Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, the line, partly borrowed from the Bible, that said, "We will not be satisfied until 'justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.' " It occurred to her that water would be an ideal element for a hot climate, that its calm, soothing quality and quiet, constant sound would be perfect for the "contemplative area" she wanted to create in front of the center, a place that would have all the tranquillity of a Japanese garden, a place "to appreciate how far the country has come...
...left and right field whipped back and forth. Though expansion joints at the top of the stadium absorbed the blow, chunks of concrete fell off, precisely as planned. One dangerous block crashed into a seat in Section 53. Only a moment before, its occupant had gone to buy a hot...
...LADY. Being Ambassador to the Bahamas is not usually a training ground for the task of U.S. Customs Commissioner, yet Carol Boyd Hallett will succeed the high-profile William von Raab in that job. As Ambassador, Hallett persuaded Prime Minister Lynden Pindling to put Bahamian police on U.S. Customs "hot pursuit" overflights and later lifted the U.S. visas of Pindling cronies accused of drug corruption...
After years of red-hot growth, the industry is maturing. Companies are launching more products, yet few are truly innovative. -- But Compaq's new laptop is likely to score...