Word: outbreaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grist for late-night comedy--never mind that a lot of folks do not find them very funny. But the public has every reason to wonder just what is going on, as dozens of the country's biggest businesses woo, wrangle and battle for one another in the strongest outbreak of the urge to merge in U.S. history. Is the current rash of mergers good for American business? For stockholders? For the country? And just how far can it go before it goes...
Montana acted ostensibly to keep livestock free of brucellosis, or Bang's disease, which has been detected in some Yellowstone buffalo. The disorder can cause cows to abort, and spreads undulant fever in humans. Critics say Montana has not suffered an outbreak of brucellosis for 25 years, and that the kill is being held to please the hunting fraternity and cover up herd mismanagement by the Park Service. While the Fund for Animals, headed by Author Cleveland Amory, is suing to prevent the hunt, the state has more than 3,000 applications from hunters eager to shoot the once endangered...
...several incarnations in many languages, but Art Historian Jean-Paul Bouillon presents the movement under its best-known name in Art Nouveau (Rizzoli; 247 pages; $60). Some 350 illustrations, 125 of them in color, trace its genealogy from the 1870s to the outbreak of World War I, a journey that manages to bridge 19th century formalism and Bauhaus severity. Although Tiffany's lamps and Gaudi's facades are archetypal examples of art nouveau, the author widens artistic horizons, and readers' eyes, by demonstrating that fine artists from Whistler to Picasso were influenced by its rhythmic, serpentine style...
...response to the outbreak of the disease, officials from both Harvard and MIT said that they were organizing information campaigns...
...well as the no-man's-land between Greek and Turkish Cyprus. But U.N. peacekeepers have failed to cushion nations from attack on several occasions, most infamously when the U.N. pulled its troops out of the Sinai Peninsula at the insistence of Gamal Abdel Nasser just before the outbreak of the Six-Day War between Egypt and Israel in 1967. Scoffed former Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban...