Word: movingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chase is concerned that a backlash to the natural-burn policy may produce the other extreme: the rapid extinguishing of all forest fires. Residents, tourists and area politicians have already sharply criticized the Park Service for waiting too long before moving to contain the latest blazes. "I question the wisdom...
Sensing a shift in public mood, policymakers and civic leaders are moving ! in. Some remedies are humane, such as New York's Project Help, which sends two vans out to provide food, clothing, rides to shelters and medical care to the mentally ill homeless. Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley has...
The last time grocery-store customers stared at prices with such dismay was in the 1970s, when inflation was moving as fast as the numbers on a cash register. This summer the drought has sent food prices leaping again, even though inflation in the rest of the economy remains at...
In the advertising industry, small shops are thinking big these days. Fast- moving and feisty, the upstarts are luring a growing share of blue-chip accounts away from the Madison Avenue behemoths. While agencies like Manhattan's Young & Rubicam (1987 billings: $4.9 billion) and London's Saatchi ) & Saatchi ($4.6 billion...
"The stars of death stood over us./ And Russia, guiltless, beloved, writhed/ under the crunch of bloodstained boots,/ under the wheels of Black Marias." So wrote Anna Akhmatova, perhaps Russia's finest woman poet, in Requiem, a moving testimony to those who kept vigils outside prison gates for loved ones...