Word: origin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...figurative painting coming out of Europe was still fresh, when American critics were slapping the label of neoexpressionism on everything that moved, there was a good deal of excitement in New York City over three young Italian painters nicknamed, whether for convenience or as a tribute to their common origin in the land of opera, the three Cs--Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente and Enzo Cucchi...
Many of the reservists were well prepared for the two weeks of maneuvers. Most were of Hispanic origin, almost two-thirds speak Spanish, and many were Viet Nam veterans. Hondurans from Las Hormigas, a village near the Texans' temporary base (dubbed "the Alamo"), responded with surprise and delight when they heard the foreign soldiers speaking Spanish. "I was asked if we were in the Mexican army," Sergeant Raul Ortiz, 35, a Viet Nam veteran, laughingly told TIME Correspondent David S. Jackson. The men who had seen action in the war were excited by the prospect of a sham battle. "These...
General Dynamics responded that it had "no idea of the origin of the figures quoted." The Pentagon is undecided as to how it will recoup the money. Said a Pentagon spokesman: "We could continue to withhold overhead payments until the account is filled, or we could ask for a lump payment." The Northrop Corp., a competitor, last week suggested one form of punishment for General Dynamics: to share some of the Government contracts with it. Northrop offered to sell the Pentagon about 400 of its newly developed F-20s, sleek fighter jets it is having trouble marketing, for substantially less...
...disclosures last week raised the possibility that the institution has been involved, perhaps unknowingly, in money laundering, the booming illegal business of covering up the origin of funds earned from drug trafficking and other crimes. Growing concern about the spread of money laundering prompted the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations to announce plans for a probe of the Boston institution, which is New England's largest banking company (assets: $21 billion). Rhode Island Democrat Fernand St Germain, chairman of the House Banking Committee, declared that the Boston episode shows the need for tighter controls over the financial industry...
...Says Sister Claire Patrice Fitzgerald, principal of a Catholic parochial school outside Los Angeles: "The Mother herself was obedient to her son, Christ. The authority of the church comes from Christ, who gave it to St. Peter and his successors, the Popes. If we truly believe that's the origin of authority, how can we challenge the Popes...