Word: palming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That cooperation was recently demonstrated near Palm Springs, Calif. Real estate projects with a potential value of $19 billion were being blocked by environmentalists trying to protect the Coachella Valley fringe-toed lizard, an endangered species that inhabits the area. After a series of studies concluded that the reptile could survive if a 13,000-acre preserve were established nearby, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service asked TNC to help raise the $25 million needed to purchase the tract. Within four years, the organization had rounded up the entire amount. The environmentalists were satisfied, and the developers proceeded with their...
...when Stan turned 65 and retired, he and Thelma and two dogs, two cars and a 32.3-ft. sloop moved to Marco Island, a clean, windswept three-mile by five-mile sandbar in the Gulf of Mexico. The surroundings were gorgeous (Marco Island, with the soft brush of its palm fronds sounding like rain in the night, is the sort of place even bona fide Floridians retire to), but full-tilt retirement didn't agree with Stan. He wasn't In the Mood...
With so many contenders for the title of Most Overrated Young American Artist, it is hard to award the palm. But one of the strongest candidates would certainly be David Salle, who at 34 is having what is called a "mid- career retrospective" of 42 enormous paintings at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. After closing at the Whitney on March 29, the exhibition will travel through next January to museums in Los Angeles, Toronto and Chicago. As a sign of cultural inflation, it would be hard to beat...
...WHAT NEXT! What next!" Austin was jumping up and down in destructive glee, a two-inch, 27 ounce steel chrome sizing ball oscillating dangerously in his sweaty palm. All around him in a happy cornucopia of wanton destruction lay the mangled, twisted remains of a tin of cookies, a beer can, a memo board, a squash racket, a small toaster oven and the Sunday Times...
Suddenly the specter of an all-out trade war between the U.S. and the twelve- member European Community loomed larger than ever. In Palm Springs, Calif., where President Reagan was vacationing, U.S. Trade Representative Clayton Yeutter announced last week that the Administration was prepared to slam the door by Jan. 30 on more than $400 million worth of West European imports, including Italian white wine, French cognac and British gin. The Europeans came right back with threatened new barriers against such U.S. products as corn-gluten feed, soy cakes, rice and almonds. Yeutter spoke darkly of possible "major disruptions...