Word: quadrants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This so-called quadrant plan has enraged nonwhite opponents, who contend that at-large voting is stacked against minorities because of the higher costs of mounting campaigns. Charges black Councilman Al Lipscomb: "It's a scheme to preserve Anglo business and political power." He and others contend that Strauss, who was twice elected with heavy black and Hispanic support, sold out to the Anglo establishment and then conspired to keep a minority proposal for all single-member districts off the ballot...
...Worth. But it is quite clear from a work like Joseph and Potiphar's Wife that Reni could endow human figures with a Caravaggio-like density and passion while pointing the way for a classicism still to come. The figure of Joseph, moving away in its sandals and serene quadrant of ocher cloak, might be striding toward his eventual home in one of Poussin's paintings...
...Shut up!" he yelled, drawing a few strands from another quadrant down over his landing pad. "Nice nose," he offered in feeble rebuttal...
...plant, leaving hundreds dead as they slept. The gas quickly enveloped the city's railway station, where beggars were huddled against the chill. In minutes, a score had died and 200 others were gravely ill. Through temples and shops, over streets and lakes, across a 25-sq.-mi. quadrant of the city, the cloud continued to spread, noiselessly and lethally. The night air was fairly cool (about 60° F), the wind was almost calm, and a heavy mist clung to the earth; those conditions prevented the gas from dissipating, as it would have done during...
...Hayden Planetarium at the Boston Museum of Science has also been flooded with calls. Monday they received more than 50, museum official Bob Burnston said. Museum workers taking the calls have explained that the planets, when most nearly aligned before dawn today, were grouped within a 98-degree quadrant around the sun and that even perfect alignment would cause only a one millimeter tide on the sun. Burnston said...