Word: sheet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drama widened in Brazil, a little more light was shed upon some of its shadowy supporting players. Wolfgang Gerhard, who seemed to have been Pedro's ubiquitous fixer, was, said Austrian Consul-General Otto Heller in Sao Paulo, a fanatic Nazi who brought out a fascist propaganda sheet called Der Reichsbrief (The Reich Letter). By the age of twelve, Gerhard had become a member of the Hitler Youth and later boasted of being a committed Nazi. Nonetheless, in the Austrian town of Graz last week, Gerhard's 26-year- old son Adolf firmly rejected the stories told of his father...
...absolute forms of classic architecture -- columns and lintels bathed in Aegean light. The extreme subtlety of Marden's color speaks of nature. It is mixed and layered, skin upon slow skin of pigment and oil, bearing a history of growth, submergence and mellowing, containing light the way a sheet of marble stores the heat of afternoon. Paintings like this are ideal landscapes, and their august stasis recalls Byron's line: "When elements to elements conform,/ And dust is as it should...
...values. They take the long, institutional view of their enterprise, understanding that its greatest asset is its reputation for squaring accounts with rigorous fairness. To preserve it, they are willing to sacrifice short-term advantage. Irene, in contrast, represents the M.B.A. mentality, feminist division. She wants each new balance sheet to improve on the last, and will cut dangerous corners to attain that end. And pioneering an occupation previously closed to her sex, she takes even more chances to show the guys she is entitled to play in their league...
...Murdoch worked as a subeditor on the London Daily Express in order to learn the newspaper trade. Ambitious, yes. Once he had revitalized his father's papers, he quickly bought a string of other Australian dailies, then eventually hopscotched to London in 1969, when he acquired the Sunday scandal sheet News of the World, and the U.S. in 1973, when he purchased both the San Antonio Express and News...
...Levins Lab Fact Sheet" euphemistically refers to chemical weapons detoxification testing as "Chemical and Food Services Research." The fact sheet refers only to "hazardous chemicals," never mentioning nerve gases. Only at the end of the report, among its anticipated projects, does it mention chemical warfare agents. Continuing in the gourmand tone of its opening references, ADL reports its toxin measurements in "tablespoons" and as "1/3 cup," instead of simply coming straight out and telling the public that a few drops are lethal...