Word: settings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aftermath. As TIME's Hong Kong bureau chief from 1982 to 1986, Burton soaked up the Philippines' maudlin, heart-tugging, cutthroat, rumor-mad, pious, unethical spirit. Her book is not only the expected political thriller, full of intriguing Filipinos and meddling Americans, but a bizarre feudal drama set in a land where Sancho Panza, not Don Quixote, tilts at the monstrous windmills...
...charged with criminal violations of the federal Clean Water Act. According to a report in the Anchorage Times last week, Hazelwood may have done more than just hand the ship over to an uncertified third mate, a serious enough lapse in itself. To change sea-lanes, he had set the ship on a course that pointed it toward treacherous Bligh Reef, the Times reported, then allegedly left it on autopilot without telling anyone. Thus, when the third mate realized he was headed for disaster and tried to steer the ship, he could...
...AMHERST SAXOPHONE QUARTET: BACH ON SAX (MCA Classics). Purists, beware! Your prejudice against unorthodox instrumentation could be shattered by this surprising set of Bach adaptations that has nothing gimmicky about it but the concept...
Neither in Poland nor in Kampuchea could these dramatic reversals have been made without the sponsorship of Gorbachev. They follow a string of precedents set by the Soviet Union: its first contested elections in 71 years; withdrawal from Afghanistan; constructive mediation in southern Africa; offers of significant cuts in the Warsaw Pact's conventional-force structure in Europe; and even, despite reports of an unwelcome sale of jet bombers to Libya, suggestions of a generally more helpful approach to the Middle East...
...other conscientiously nonsexist, nonconformist couples who embraced hyphenation in the '70s as a banner of equality. The ubiquitous computer, for example, often seems incapable of recognizing hyphens. Says a Citibank spokesman: "This is not an insidious attack on our part. It's a program problem." Bureaucracies would rather set aside the mark altogether. In Bayside, N.Y., Dana Wissner- Levy, a graduate student at Hofstra University, had to take her battle to the school president before the registrar's office agreed to accept her hyphen...