Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agreement would be reached by September 1984, they insisted, or they would unilaterally announce their own plans for the community. Almost immediately, the Hong Kong dollar plunged. That crisis may, ironically, have rescued the talks. As one Chinese businessman points out: "In a month when the U.S. dollar rose from six Hong Kong dollars to 7.75, the Bank of China was the biggest loser...
...Well, it's a good way of spending the time in between." Author Umberto Eco, 52, has long contemplated the many kinds of laughter, including recently the all-the-way-to-the-bank kind. The awesome success of his medieval-monastery mystery, The Name of the Rose, has turned the scholarly Italian professor of semiotics into an international literary icon. During an autumn promotional tour of the U.S. last week, he delighted an audience of New York City fans, but deftly declined to interpret the meaning of his work. Eco did talk about the pressures of fame and fortune...
Wyoming has been a favorite haunt of paleontologists for the past century, ever since westering pioneers reported that many vertebrate fossils were almost lying on the ground. Scientists soon discovered why. Roughly 55 million years ago, the Rockies rose violently, while enormous basins formed around Wyoming. Rains washed sediment into the natural bowls, and thousands of animal carcasses were buried and preserved...
...husband who had beaten her repeatedly over more than a decade. As he lay sleeping in a drunken stupor, she poured gasoline around his bed, lit a match, packed the children into the car, and drove off as the house went up in flames. The TV movie, written by Rose Leiman Goldemberg from a book by Faith McNulty, tells the story of Francine's marriage, mostly in flashback, as she relates it to the attorney appointed to defend her on a murder charge...
...Rose Smith cruised down the left side of the field unchallenged and whacked the ball into the top right-hand corner...