Word: nationale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, the Government of National Reconstruction was issuing many welcome decrees. First came an end of censorship, permitting long-silenced newspapers like the stridently anti-Somoza La Prensa to start up their presses. Homes, cars and other property that guerrillas had confiscated during their battle with Tacho's national...
Today, at 77, Ansel Adams is the most popular "fine" photographer in America. His images of landscape, and particularly of Yosemite National Park in California, have become almost indistinguishable from their subjects: to many people, Yosemite is the apparition on Adams' viewfinder. "Won't it be wonderful when a million...
Adams' work?and his 60-year association with the Sierra Club, including 37 years as a member of its board of directors?has exerted a steady pressure on U.S. conservation and parks policy. Adams' limited-edition book Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trail (1938) helped persuade Franklin D. Roosevelt to...
As the current slowdown continues, the danger will be that consumers will not just cut discretionary spending but also begin to forgo other purchases that would have a broad effect on the economy. Even now, studies show that consumer "confidence" is near its lowest level in 30 years. Because spending...
Insurance firms and banks have been hit especially hard by the shortage, but the effects are also being felt in such "glamour" industries as publishing, television and advertising. Chicago's First National Bank has been giving $500 bounties to employees who recruit new secretaries, and the big CNA insurance...