Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dominion of the camera is total -- the trap for facts has snared the world. Photography has mapped every inch of creation, laying over it a fabric of images that can obscure the underlying realities or throw them into greater relief. Because every patch of earth, no matter how remote, is littered with discarded film cans, cameras have to patrol the far edge of the solar system to find sights that still rank as exotic. Bring us the rings of Neptune. Saturn's we've already seen...
...numerical need is perfectly logical. The number was the story: down 190.58 points. The way in which numbers are expected to grow into bigger numbers, however, is not so straightforward. Exciting numbers--200, 300, 400, 500--flitted through American minds all weekend. In the end, a combination of relief and disappointment greeted Monday's actual closing figure: back up 88.12 points...
WASHINGTON--California lawmakers pressed for $3.8 billion in earthquake aid yesterday, more than $1 billion above the White House figure, as federal relief legislation began a race through Congress...
Richard Darman '66, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, met with House Appropriations Committee chair Jamie Whitten (D-Miss.) on the relief package and said he didn't see a showdown brewing...
...addition to launching an emergency campaign of debt relief, the advanced nations of the North must make available to the desperate nations of the South efficient new technologies that spare the environment while encouraging economic growth. Fortunately, help for the South should not mean only sacrifice in the North. The need for energy-efficient and environmentally useful technologies could create an enormous untapped market -- one that several of the world's economic powers have already begun to explore. At the same time, there are ways for the South to clean up its own act. Some developing nations run up more...