Word: olympias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...receding at an average rate of between 6 in. and 2 ft. a year (the cover photo shows the coast northwest of Santa Barbara). Monterey Bay, south of San Francisco, loses as much as 5 ft. to 15 ft. annually. Cape Shoalwater, Wash., about 70 miles west of Olympia, has been eroding at the rate of more than 100 ft. a year since the turn of the century; its sparsely settled sand dunes have retreated an astounding 12,000 ft., or more than two miles, since...
...looks so like Siberia. To gauge how the roots of his imagination go, one need only compare his painting of the nude Helga with a black ribbon round her neck, face averted, floating in a soup of dark shadow, with the work on which it is based: Manet's Olympia. There, one has all the contrast between what is deep and what is genteel, between brazen, ironic intelligence and mere sensibility, between the harsh confrontational skills of a great talent and the tepid virtuosity of a popular one. This show is too much of a medium-good thing...
...What to do then is left up to the parents and child. Many take the results seriously. Dissatisfied with her score, Laura Miller, 12, started jogging with her mother more frequently. "I wanted to train for the next Fitnessgram," says Laura, a seventh-grader at Jefferson Middle School in Olympia, Wash...
...Olympia's approach may well find support in Congress. Last week a study by the Joint Economic Committee of the House and Senate recommended that federal officials consider replacing traditional benefits with so-called workfare subsidies that pay welfare recipients to undergo job training. The report proposes that states be allowed to experiment more freely with welfare...
...control about 30 million sq. ft. of U.S. real estate, worth an estimated $10 billion. The glittering centerpiece: their new $1.5 billion Battery Park City project, part of a vast new chunk of Wall Street waterfront created on 92 acres of landfill in Manhattan. Among the companies ensconced in Olympia & York's elegant copper-and-granite towers there: Merrill Lynch, American Express and Dow Jones...