Word: silver
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...Shevardnadze. For the former Soviet Foreign Minister and current chairman of the republic's provisional State Council, affairs of state continue nonstop. Seven days a week, from 8:30 a.m. until well after midnight, Shevardnadze is on the job, working the battery of telephones on his desk beneath a silver icon of the madonna and child. On Monday fighting broke out again in the secessionist region of Abkhazia. On Tuesday Russian forces killed several Georgian guardsmen in the Abkhazian capital. Wednesday, hard-line nationalists attempted to open a new front in eastern Georgia. On Thursday Shevardnadze flew to Moscow...
...muscle disorder, and has been spotted with a cigarette in one hand and an asthma inhaler in the other. "One," he bellows into the telephone, then hangs up. His secretary appears bearing a single cigarette from a pack imprisoned in her desk, which he lights with a silver lighter. He claims to have cut from three packs a day to less than half a pack; in the next 90 minutes he smokes three...
...Kodak idea that has the aura of inevitability. Photo CD is the public's first glimpse of a technological revolution that has been developing for more than a decade. Like music, text and telephones, photography is going digital. What was once a purely chemical process -- by which crystals of silver halide were exposed to light and turned into visual representations (or analogs) of an actual scene -- is being transformed into an electronic process that turns the same information into strings...
...pictures may look the same -- at least to the untrained eye. Purists point out that Photo CD images contain only about 18 million pixels (picture elements), which is roughly equivalent to the visual information represented by the 20 million silver molecules in a standard 35-mm negative. But that is about one-fifth the resolution offered by high-quality Kodachrome slides, and it cannot compare with the glorious large-format pictures that Ansel Adams labored to create...
...rejecting not conservatism but an administration that embodies the narrowest of right-wing principles without the vision or courage even to defend those adequately. We've read your lips, George, and it's pretty clear that Ann Richards was right when she said you were born with a silver foot in your mouth...