Word: presentational
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Also, many of the objects represented are present in multiple pictures in the section--there are at least four pictures of Memorial Hall, and no less than five shots of crew events...
...military junta to choose a candidate for President, subject to public approval in a yes-or-no referendum. The current unrest, however, may tempt Pinochet to scrap even that small step toward democracy. "In the next weeks," predicts Orlando Saenz, a Chilean industrialist, "Pinochet could well declare that present conditions make 1989 impossible." If that happens, the tense standoff between the government and the opposition may turn ugly...
...gave him a chance when he declared for Governor in 1982. His victory three years ago was the first election he had ever won without running on someone else's coattails. His three years in office have been relatively uneventful. Yet now, even as he carefully denies any present plans to seek the presidency, he is considered one of the Democratic Party's shining stars...
...fears and restore their confidence. "Chernobyl was the Hindenburg of the current nuclear power business," says Lawrence Lidsky, an M.I.T. nuclear engineer, referring to the 1937 explosion of a German dirigible that ended the use of hydrogen in lighter- than-air passenger craft. "People simply do not trust the present nuclear technology...
...initial test last April. A similar Swedish unit called PIUS (Process Inherent Ultimate Safety) floods with water in the event of a mishap; the boron-treated liquid instantly stops the reactor. West Germany is experimenting with small modular units that can be cooled more quickly and efficiently than the present generation of nuclear behemoths...