Word: path
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Businessmen regard Regan as sensitive to their need to raise new capital to spur investment, industrial growth and productivity-all the things that the "Reaganauts" claim must be done if inflation is to be stemmed and the economy steered along a path of robust recovery. There are, however, some reservations about Regan among career officials at Treasury. As Merrill Lynch's chairman, he rarely expressed thoughts about economic policies beyond stating their impact on the securities industry. For instance, in a speech last month to the senior staff of the New York Stock Exchange, he declared, "Most...
...major hurdles remain in the path of atomic energy. The first is the disposal of nuclear waste. Spent fuel rods contain radioactive isotopes that remain potentially lethal for thousands of years. The industry believes that there are several ways to handle the problem. The most promising is vitrification, a process that mixes the nuclear waste with glass; the material hardens into a black solid cylinder which is easy to store...
...ACADEMICS mount a tall hill And trace the car's path, holding still. His first stop is New York City, Home of the guaranteed loan. He makes a brief stop on Charlotte St. Delivers one "free enterprise zone." Then off to the schools of Kentucky, With a gift they lost decades ago--A teachable theory of creation, For Darwin was wrong, as we know. A side-trip to Detroit, just briefly--long enough to leave two gifts: A loosening of emission standards And for K-Car sales a lift. Then on to the national forests--The real environmental dangers...
...performance. They should consider that lighting has been an acceptable directorial tool since the turn of the century; yet when a director shines different colored or powered lights on a performer from different directions, he is doing with vision essentially the same as Breuer is with hearing: manipulating the path a performance travels on its way from the actor to the audience's senses. Breuer's experiments of today may become tomorrow's bread-and-butter theater...
...SCIENCE). From its epicenter at Eboli, near Salerno, the terremoto radiated its destruction through the regions of Campania and Basilicata, a rugged belt of parsimonious countryside between the Apennines and the Tyrrhenian Sea on the ankle of the Italian boot. Though it struck the major cities in its path, the quake concentrated with cruel efficiency on impoverished rural villages. In all, 179 communities suffered at least some damage, and 310,000 people were made homeless. General Antonio Tamburino, military commander of the relief forces in Avellino, one of the hardest-hit provinces, ventured that the dead might number...