Word: mix
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With its shifting mix of Hispanics, oil entrepreneurs and Yankee yuppie transplants, Texas has as many constituencies as it has recipes for five-alarm chili. Republican Phil Gramm and Democrat Lloyd Doggett have been trying to cope with this volatile hodgepodge as they crisscross the state in their quest to win the Senate seat held by retiring Republican John Tower. The Lone Star candidates are as sharply dissimilar as the voters they are courting. Comments San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros, a Doggett supporter: "No one can say it's hard to tell the candidates apart...
Everyone wants out, but only Piper seems to know the land beyond the electric fence and barbed wire. Back in the meditation room after Piper's first attempted break, the four become blood brothers the old-fashioned way, each cutting a finger and letting the blood mix with all. "That's corny," says one. "Real blood in never corny." Piper shouts back...
These substances float up into the stratosphere, where they are broken up into molecules of fluoride and chlorine. And chlorine, which is known as a "free radical," is very bad for ozone; when the substances mix, ozone is broken down...
...severe radiation danger. Three barrels, however, contained uranium that had been partly processed into fuel, a form that is more hazardous. As yet, divers taking daily readings of the water have not detected any signs of leaking radioactivity. More worrisome is the uranium's volatility: should it mix with water, it would be transformed chemically into an acid that could easily explode. Loose in the sea, it could poison any marine life near by. Warns Shoja Etamad, a nuclear engineer based in Paris: "No one really knows what happens when you deal with quantities on this scale...
...dark star of the Chronicle is one Mordecai Chaim Rumkowski, a character who might have tumbled from the pages of an Isaac Bashevis Singer novel. Installed as a leader called the Eldest of the Jews, he runs the ghetto with a lethal mix of egomania and compassion. No one can marry without his permission; no one is born or dies without his notice. Rumkowski orders postage stamps bearing his likeness; sycophants and fools dance in constant attendance. He seems fond of his charges, but he fully cooperates with the Nazis, supervises "deportations" that go directly to the ovens of Chelmno...