Word: mosaic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...edges of darkness." John McDermott, the white director of urban affairs for Illinois Bell, attributes some of the continuing racial tension in this country to the fact that whites judge the same new era differently. "Black Americans are beginning to be seen as just another group in the American mosaic, not entitled to special privileges," he says. "So many white workers regard affirmative action as a kind of unfair preference for minorities...
Janzen has so far collected $1.3 million from such contributors as the MacArthur and W. Alton Jones foundations and is now negotiating to buy 15.4 sq. mi. of land -- a mosaic of 20- to 50-acre farms, grasslands and plots of forest -- from farmers and cattlemen. He offers the going rate of $200 to $300 a hectare (2.5 acres). With crops and cattle returning marginal profits in Costa Rica, and interest rates exceeding 20%, he has met with little resistance and hopes to purchase the remaining land by February 1988. Environmentalists are cheering him on. "We as conservationists in Latin...
...thorough was the restoration that 7,000 sq. ft. of marble floor tiles were lifted, cleaned and replaced with pieces from the same quarry in Italy that had produced the originals. Workmen spent a year on their knees reconstructing the mosaic. When the hotel reopened, however, the tiles were largely covered by carpet. "It broke our hearts to see the rugs go down," admitted Project Manager Michael Darby. "But marble floors are hard on the feet and very noisy...
...structure of a late australopithecine: wide palate, huge rear molars, enormous cheekbones and a pronounced crest of bone running along the top of the skull. But other features -- a for- ward-thrusting muzzle, an orangutan-size brain and an apelike jaw structure -- are primitive. Leakey believes this mosaic suggests, as he has argued for years, that Johanson is wrong and that his reconstruction of afarensis is actually based on two different species. And, Leakey says, the new fossil, labeled WT 17000, resembles one of them...
...days ago, when Wirthlin had settled in between the portraits of the Roosevelts, Teddy and Franklin, he began his rundown in a soft voice, dropping figures into place to form a political mosaic. His small audience listened first in silent astonishment, then puzzlement. The news was just too good...