Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Over the years, American popular opinion has recoiled at revelations that the CIA, beginning with Italy in the late 1940s, has manipulated foreign elections. But in the laissez-faire 1980s, no one seems to notice or care that almost all of the U.S.'s leading political consultants are now doing roughly the same thing for fun and profit. Either way, U.S. intervention may undermine the very democratic values the nation so loudly proclaims. Maybe that old American truism should be amended to read "Politics -- and political consultants -- should stop at the water's edge...
Minimalists trying to imitate the pin-drop prose of the late Raymond Carver would consider Banks' style uncool. But judging from the author's output, cool seems like a social disease. His structures lack grace but carry the weight of his passion and concern...
Even before the Battle of Britain, Hitler wanted his generals to start planning an invasion of Russia in the fall of 1940. They managed to talk him into delaying until the following May. Germany signed a trade agreement with the U.S.S.R. as late as January 1941, but a month earlier Hitler had told his commanders, "The German armed forces must be prepared to crush Soviet Russia in a quick campaign." The battle plan called for some 148 divisions -- more than 3 million men -- to attack in three main drives along a 1,000-mile front. One army group would strike...
Riefenstahl, 87, who served the Nazi cause by filming such propaganda masterpieces as Triumph of the Will, attended one of Hitler's regular movie nights at his Berchtesgaden retreat in late August...
...current plight of the old-growth forests had its origins in the late 1940s, when a postwar housing boom resulted in the voracious cutting of trees on private lands. The logging industry was forced to turn to public lands, including those with old-growth forests (prized because of the high quality and quantity of their timber). The National Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management have cooperated, selling rights to new tracts of forest every year. This policy, combined with modern logging machinery that makes cutting on mountain slopes easier, has put vast stands of old-growth trees...