Word: pacificism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Now Fisher joins a growing band of rescue artists of the not-grown-at-home variety. Prominent among them is Louis V. Gerstner, who was recruited in March from the top job at RJR Nabisco to become chairman and CEO of IBM, the once great computer giant that has lost...
This time out, these two old friends are sailing east across the Pacific Ocean toward the coast of South America. In his role as an undercover agent, Maturin hopes to encourage nascent nationalists in Peru and Chile to declare independence from Spain. Success in this mission would achieve two goals...
Southern California can be seen as a huge fire trap. If it were a building, it would fail inspection. Every year for five months virtually no rain falls. And every year from mid-September to November the weather system overhead jerks into reverse -- instead of blowing from the Pacific landward...
A tiny watercolor Mexican town huddles beneath pastel pink and purple mountains on the dustjacket of Harriet Doerr's new novel, Consider This, Senora. An azure bubble of a church dome, crimson and cream splashes of title roofing and whitewashed walls merge in a hazy dreamscape technicolor. The cover seems...
Most everyone can agree that one of the first bands from the Pacific Northwest which made the kinds of songs associated with grunge--slow churning, soiled with feedback and riff-laden--was Melvins (not "The Melvins," but simply "Melvins"). Melvins have been around since 1984. Along the way, the band...