Word: raine
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fairy-tale ending of Marquez' novel, the magical realism which dominated the prose of his previous works such as One Hundred Years of Solitude and The Autumn of the Patriarch is surprisingly subtle in this latest work. No sleeping women spout anger and green blood, no plagues of forgetfulness rain down upon forgotten towns. Furthermore, conversation with spirits is relatively nonexistent in Love in the Time of Cholera and babies with corkscrew tails are not to be found...
Agray and dreary rain was falling on Cambridge last night when the knock came at my door. Putting my textbook aside, I leapt to my feet and opened the door. "Yes?" I said...
Reagan's "what-me-worry?" energy policies are reminiscent of the Sesame Street episode in which Bert and Ernie find rain leaking through a hole in the roof. They can't patch the hole while it's raining, so they decide to wait until the rain stops. But when it does, they no longer see the need to fix the roof, because it's not leaking any more...
Whatever its failings, the report was well timed. Foot dragging by the Reagan Administration on acid rain was attacked on several fronts last week in Washington. Testifying before a House subcommittee, James Mahoney, the new director of the National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program, a group formed by Congress in 1980 to examine policy options on acid rain, distanced himself from a report by his predecessors that downplayed the problem...
...E.D.F. report coincided with a visit to Washington by Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, who has tried unsuccessfully for years to persuade the Reagan Administration to tackle the acid-rain problem. Mulroney last week called the situation a "rapidly escalating ecological tragedy." Even before his arrival, however, Washington rejected a Canadian proposal that the U.S. limit nitrogen-oxide emissions...