Word: posing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is one of the very few issues in this city where there is one hundred percent unanimity on what should be done," added City Councilor Alice Wolf, who said the toxic agents pose "a clear and present danger" to the community...
...could pose problems," agreed Christine B Pratt, director of external financing. "The trend sometimes is to place unrealistic requirements on construction," she said...
Plant safety procedures were inadequate to deal with a large-scale leak of the deadly methyl isocyanate, or MIC, despite the fact that the dangers such a leak would pose were known. Nor had any precautions been taken to protect people living near the plant site. Although a safety survey conducted by experts from Union Carbide headquarters in 1982 identified major hazards that could lead to serious incidents, no procedures were developed for alerting or evacuating the population that would be affected by an accident...
What makes the collection unique is its remarkable organization. A card catalog indexes all pictures by assignment, subject, quality of the print and pose (full face, profile, smiling, shaking hands). Cross-references note the backgrounds in each photo, as well as peripheral people and prominent objects: a birthday cake, a motorcycle, a puppy. Even so, some objects slip through the indexing net. Last fall photographs were sought for a Living story about a particular Swedish ivy on the White House Oval Office mantel. There was no index listing for the plant, and hundreds of White House pictures...
...began to shout insults at the Spaniard, punctuating them by pounding his fists on the desk and then, having removed his shoe, banging it resoundingly on the desk too. Then he leaped from his chair and brandished his fists at the frail, undersized Castiella, who assumed a comical defensive pose. Security guards rushed up and separated them. We were stunned at Khrushchev's behavior. At the mission afterward, everyone was embarrassed and upset. Gromyko, noted for his strict, impeccable behavior, was white-lipped with agitation. But Khrushchev acted as if nothing at all had happened. He was laughing loudly...