Word: rising
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...correspondent in Europe and Latin America. On the diplomatic trail from 1973 to 1976, he traveled 380,000 miles with the peripatetic Henry Kissinger. Van Voorst was rudely reminded of his former world of intrigue in 1979, shortly after he joined TIME, when he covered the Ayatullah Khomeini's rise to power. He found himself under surveillance from mysterious cars parked outside TIME's Tehran office, and was visited by agents who ransacked the bureau...
...morality tale of outsize greed and corruption and the perversion of good intentions. Wedtech prospered, prosecutors say, as a result of promiscuous bribery of city, state and federal officials and a conspiracy to win government contracts by fraudulently depicting itself as a minority-owned business. Wedtech's rise and fall is more than just another example of New York's current convulsion of corruption; the company's overreaching may have stretched even to the White House. A special prosecutor is investigating the possibility that former Presidential Aide Lyn Nofziger violated Government ethics laws in lobbying for Wedtech, and Attorney General...
...cost $5 million just to repair." And books are not any cheaper. To maintain its library, Northwestern orders 29,000 periodicals a year at a cost approaching $2 million. Other uncontrollable costs include insurance and utilities. Emory University in Atlanta expects next year's electric bill to rise...
...What is very speculative at this point," Emanuel says, "is how the earth's climate will respond." One variable that could offset the rise in CO2 levels, for example, would be a change in cloud cover, which would cut down on the sunlight reaching the surface of the earth. Although it is too early to sound alarms, says Emanuel, his purpose is to make it clear "the consequences of the changes that are occurring are quite severe...
Artists are crazy, the rest of us like to think. And great artists are emotional idiots savants, charting the terra incognita of human experience by going over the edge. It is a lovely delusion. It excuses so many excesses and failures, gives rise to so many cautionary legends. George Gordon, Lord Byron incarnated one such fable: the poet as demon lover. He was dead at 36. Joe Orton, the English playwright who died in 1967, lived out another. He cruised danger as if it were a cute trick in a public gents', and was murdered at 34 -- for love! Nice...