Word: pacificism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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To these pacific figures, Leigh adds shaking, saddened Cynthia -- and there lies the rub. Blethyn gives Cynthia all the delicacy and poise of a crack baby, at times almost frightening to watch. This portrayal works to a large extent and could probably stand on its own. She is, in truth...
PHILADELPHIA: CSX Corp. agreed to buy Conrail in a $8.4 billion deal that would form the nation's third-largest freight company. The new company will control some 29,645 miles of track serving most of the eastern U.S. The deal was cut as part of a push by CSX...
The bad guy, if you see things that way, is Charles Hurwitz, a Houston-based junk-bond wizard who plays the corporate-villain role well. Charlie's sin? He owns the trees, and he'll cut them if he wants to--and does he want to. In 1986 his company...
No environmentalists took part in the meeting at Feinstein's office. Greens have tied up PL's logging in federal court, so Hurwitz would not sit with them. A marathon bargaining session produced a highly complicated agreement that promised to turn over $380 million in cash and land (value and...
At first, news reports breathlessly called the find evidence that Europeans had reached the Americas more than 80 centuries earlier than anyone had thought. The truth, say scientists, is that Caucasoid features, while rare, are not unheard of in the remains of prehistoric Americans. They can also be seen in...