Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Scorching temperatures, dry lightning storms and little rain have incinerated much of the West again this year. "At one point we had 43 major fires going simultaneously," said Arnold Hartigan of Idaho's Boise Interagency Fire Center, the nation's wildfire command post. Idaho has had 18 major fires burning across 187,000 acres, while Oregon had nine on 54,000 acres. California had two major fires that burned 23,000 acres, and Utah had one big blaze on 1,700 acres...
...over medical costs than do corporations. "What can an ordinary phoneworker do about the prices that hospitals and physicians charge?" asks Dale Hiestand, professor of corporate relations at the Columbia University School of Business. A better solution, union leaders argue, is to work harder to keep costs down. They point to a program at BellSouth in which managers and employees have joined forces to cut costs, enabling the Atlanta-based company to keep its generous health-care coverage intact...
Early in the Administration, Bush and National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft mulled ways to bring Soviet troop levels in Europe into rough parity with NATO's. At one point they even contemplated a complete withdrawal of U.S. forces from Europe. But the national security bureaucracy "absolutely hated it," said a White House official. "The idea just sank like a stone...
After the Cabinet sessions, Bush repairs to the Oval Office and widens his net. He often invites Darman or Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady along to go over this point or that; sometimes he turns it into a working lunch. Bush is soon on the telephone shopping the options around to his "sources" on Capitol Hill: Senator Robert Dole on political matters, Ohio Congressman Willis Gradison on health care and economic matters, Tennessee Republican Don Sundquist on tax questions. Following the May Cabinet debates over which countries to name as unfair traders under the new "Super 301" section...
...attempt to prove his point, Siegel presents exhaustive evidence of the quest for intoxication throughout history and throughout the animal kingdom. In many cases, humans and animals have shared the same drugs. Hawkmoths, for example, fly erratically after drinking the nectar of datura flowers. The Aztecs used the same plant as a pain-killer, and British soldiers in Jamestown who made a salad of its leaves became intoxicated for eleven days...