Word: inks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cause of the F.C.S.'s red ink is no mystery: the farm belt continues to suffer from its worst depression since the 1930s. Squeezed between low crop prices and falling land values, many farmers are sinking deeper and deeper into debt. By the end of 1985 borrowers were unable to make either interest or principal payments on $5.3 billion in F.C.S. loans, or 8% of its $66.6 billion portfolio...
...Harvard these trends have made themselves felt. Areas of psychology that border the natural sciences have captured most of Harvard's attention in recent years. Younger faculty members, such as Professor Stephen Kosslyn and Associate Professor James R. Stellar, are not the white-coated, ink blot-bearing researchers of late-night television. They use computers to study behavior and want to discover the biological causes of human action. Older members of the department say the work of the two men would not even have been recognized as psychological research 20 years...
Marcos' wife, Imelda, voted at a high schooltwo blocks from Malacanang Palace, which wasguarded by hundreds of soldiers and riot police.National television gave the event full coverage,showing election workers stamping indelible ink onher hand, a method to ensure people vote onlyonce...
...cliches, from cautious realist scrutiny to Warholian transcriptions of holiday-snapshot cropping. Sometimes the scene is light and sun-drenched, sometimes it is drowned in bloom and speckles, or elided by pastel smudges, or darkened into an eerie nocturnal calm. There is no favorite medium; Bartlett uses gouache, watercolor, ink, pastel, crayon, oil and pencil with almost equal facility...
...countdown to disaster had already begun. On Monday, Salvador ("Doy") Laurel, 57, marched into the office of the Philippine Commission on Elections (COMELEC) and filed as a candidate in the Feb. 7 presidential election. On Wednesday, Corazon ("Cory") Aquino, 52, did the same thing. With the ink on Aquino's registration papers barely dry and with only hours remaining before the midnight filing deadline, there was only the dimmest hope that the two opposition leaders would patch up their differences and revive plans that had collapsed three days earlier to run on a single ticket. The possibility loomed that...