Word: procession
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Senate President William M. Bulger (D-South Boston) yesterday moved to protect a bill outlawing discrimination against gays and lesbians in housing, employment and credit from opponents attempting to delay its passage in the amendment process...
...keeping the peace talks on track, Cristiani expressed doubts about the guerrillas' aim of achieving a permanent settlement by the end of January, warning that it could take all five years of his administration to achieve an accord. "If the process that we've agreed to in Mexico keeps going, there's always hope," he said. "But it won't be easy...
...part, Burroughs Wellcome made some crucial breakthroughs in developing AZT. The company designed and executed a six-step manufacturing process to convert a key ingredient, thymidine, a biological chemical first harvested from herring sperm, into AZT. Contends company spokeswoman Kathy Bartlett: "We're the ones who turned this useless chemical into useful medicine...
...killed some 100,000 Americans last year and afflicts 2.5 million with what has been called the death of the mind. Symptoms include severe loss of memory and personality changes that range from angry outbursts to withdrawal and depression. Diagnosis -- at best tentative -- has been possible only through a process of eliminating other brain ailments that could cause similar symptoms...
Cubism is the archetype of 20th century cultural movements. Indeed, it is the reason so many people have come to think of modern art as a sequence of movements, group activities. Neither Pablo Picasso nor Georges Braque could have created it on his own: it was a truly cooperative process in which Picasso (for a short time) was relieved of the psychic burden of egoistic creation -- the loneliness of the virtuoso -- and the more cautious and measured Braque was spurred into radical experiment. It marks, more clearly than any other, the point at which modern art broke away from commonsense...