Word: isolationism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What Hubbell did say on the telephone from prison, it turns out, was, "The reality is, it's just not easy to do business with me while I'm here." That is an innocuous enough statement, although perhaps overmodest, since, according to the newest indictment, the sort of consulting that...
Gaff Topsails takes places on a single midsummer's day in 1947, when some fishermen smell a new iceberg, "musty yet at the same time pure, like the air in a vault that has gone undisturbed for centuries." Stranded just offshore an Irish Catholic settlement in Newfoundland, the fishermen imagine...
In our opinion, randomization has balkanized the houses, producing fragmented communities comprised primarily of large blocking groups that have become a substitute for the spirit that used to exist at the house level. Blocking groups tend to function in isolation from each other, thus undermining a larger sense of house...
DIED. OCTAVIO PAZ, 84, Mexico's prolific man of letters who plumbed the mythic depths of his country's psyche in more than 40 volumes of poems and essays; of undisclosed causes; in Mexico City. Using his hybrid heritage (part Spanish, part Indian) as his starting point, Paz wrote The...
For 10 years, the Department of Energy's half-mile-deep subterranean nuclear-waste repository in New Mexico has been ready for business, but legal challenges and bureaucratic rigmarole have prevented the WIPP site (for Waste Isolation Pilot Plant) from opening. Now, with the EPA about to bestow its blessing...