Word: presenting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...music of these islands is ghostly and black, echoing over hundreds of years right up to the present. The islands have what Boston could never tolerate on its own landscape. Spectacle Island--so named for its bifocal shape--housed a leper colony during the 18th and 19th centuries. The most advanced cases of leprosy were dispatched to the island, a natural quarantine. Later, a glue factory located itself on the island, and later yet, a huge dump, where much of Boston's sewage and trash was left for much of this century. An island-wide, spontaneous-combustion fire devoured...
...sampler of outstanding leadership than an effort to pick the 50 who obviously and definitively lead all the rest. There were too many excellent candidates to make any such specific claim; inevitably, the choices were in part subjective! Some of the 50 were picked more for potential than for present accomplishments; they are just starting out, but TIME's editors liked where they are heading. The list does not include many outstanding Americans who lead in the arts. The visionary architect, the composer, the actor, for example, may all make distinguished contributions to the quality of American life. But TIME...
...event it decides against a second American plant, Volkswagen, which is engaged in a threeyear, $3.2 billion expansion program that is the largest in its history, has already budgeted about $640 million to build an engine plant in Mexico and to increase production at the Pennsylvania plant from the present 800 autos per day to 1,040 by 1981 . Schmücker's strategy is eventually to make the North American operation 90% self-sufficient, with only transmissions supplied from German plants...
...federal permit is needed to run a still, but the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms issues one routinely when the applicant posts a bond promising not to sell or drink the alcohol. Automakers approve of ethanol power, but caution that it does present some problems. Though it has a higher octane level than even high-test gas, ethanol contains somewhat less overall energy to the gallon, and the mileage it yields is up to 20% less...
Living in the Maniototo deals with the past and what the author cryptically labels the "Present Historic." It is a tense that allows hallucination to mingle with reality. A man is attacked by a detergent: "There was a flash of light, a smell of laundry and the penetrating fumes of a powerful cleanser, then a neutral nothing-smell, not even the usual substituted forest glade or field of lavender or carnation, and all that remained of Tommy were two faded footprints on the floor...