Word: papering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boston Phoenix, a popular area arts and news weekly, is about to start publishing a weekly edition in Providence, Rhode Island, the paper's editors said yesterday...
According to city workers, Brown was "dirty and incoherent." She screamed. She cursed. She tore up paper money and burned it. She defecated in her clothes. When a psychiatrist offered her a bag lunch, she threw it back. "Billie Boggs," she called herself, after a local television personality. She cooed over babies and hurled abuse at black men. Sometimes she sang. A favorite: How Much Is That Doggie in the Window...
...Scouts regularly go at it. Since March, Dade County, Fla., fire fighters have picked enough cans to raise $4,990 for a burn center at James M. Jackson Memorial Hospital. On Chicago's South Side, some 20 neighborhood can pickers process more than 12,000 tons of scrap paper and metal each year at the Resource Center, one of the nation's largest nonprofit recycling operations. Ken Dunn, founder of the center, sees the collectors as successful entrepreneurs. Says he: "These people have built a very viable industry...
...ranking Kremlin official appointed by Gorbachev to tumble from grace, a milestone that at first seemed to point to a setback in the Soviet leader's own political standing. But two days after Yeltsin's downfall, in a display of glasnost unprecedented even in the Gorbachev era, the party paper Pravda ran a detailed account of the sacking. Starting on the front page and occupying the entire 16-column spread of the second and third pages, the story left no doubt that Gorbachev not only acquiesced in the political assassination of his protege but took the lead in arranging...
...substance that can clog arteries and induce heart attacks, plays a role in 85% of America's 550,000 annual deaths resulting from coronary heart disease. Ridding the bloodstream of the stuff through exercise and proper diet has become a standard health regimen. Last week, however, in a landmark paper in the New England Journal of Medicine, a group of Finnish scientists provided dramatic endorsement for a drug that drastically lowers the incidence of such disease, chiefly by raising the blood levels of a type of cholesterol...