Word: interior
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while the search for aliens continues, another band of scientists is pointing their instruments downward to see what the signals from the earth's interior can tell us about our own planet...
...members of Clinton's Treasury Department fear that a tax or some other mechanism for broadly raising energy prices could stifle economic growth and make motorists surly. Already an industry coalition has started a $13 million TV ad campaign predicting a 50[cent] increase in gas prices, which Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt has denounced as "worthy of the best efforts of the tobacco industry...
...same time, Holland acknowledges that "my situation was much easier, because Washington Square is one of the easiest of James's novels." Because "the plot is very, very simple," her source material could withstand a more conservative adaptation than could the more intricate and interior Portrait undertaken by Campion...
...turns out that while rancher Williams did own the land, the acreage on which Sue was found had been placed in trust to the U.S. government. Thus he had no right to sell the fossil in the first place--at least not without Department of the Interior approval. And indeed, when the Black Hills Institute sued the government for Sue's return, a federal district court ruled that the original sale was invalid...
...controversial Church of Scientology. Growing up in Wichita, Kans., she dreamed of running off to Hollywood even though she was a daddy's girl (hence the large role of Robert Prosky, her dad on Cheers, as her fictional father in the new series). Sidetracked by cocaine and interior decorating, she dropped out of her acting studies at the University of Kansas. Then she read L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics, which Alley believes changed her life by making her take responsibility for herself. "I thought, O.K., this is either the world's biggest scam or it's fabulous. I stopped working...