Word: skies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...extraordinary sight, this huge throng bathed in floodlights with the trifurcated sculpture reaching for the inky sky. But the occasion was even more extraordinary for its message. With the world anxiously looking on, representatives of union and church and state sat together on the podium, unified as Poles despite their differences, all hoping to change the face of Communism without bringing on Soviet intervention. "Our country needs internal peace," said Walesa. "I call on you to be prudent and reasonable...
...renewed upward thrust of oil prices. The 13-nation OPEC oil cartel last week raised its export prices by 6% to 10%, and oil producers warned of possible additional increases in 1981 (see following story). Meanwhile in the U.S., more and more domestically drilled crude is being marketed at sky-high world prices as a result of the continuing phaseout of domestic crude oil price controls. Democrat Otto Eckstein, president of Data Resources, an economic forecasting firm, estimated that rising petroleum prices will add 2.2 percentage points to the nation's consumer price index...
...there. Recently he watched a father carrying his young son in a backpack. The father stopped suddenly and the child bumped his head. "For an instant," the artist remembers, "it looked as if the child were about to cry. Then his head snapped backward, the kid stared at the sky openmouthed, and his face broke into this great goofy grin. I imagined how he felt. He didn't know that what he was looking at was the sky or that the color was called blue. He only knew that it was beautiful. And I thought, God, just...
...above us only sky...
...overhangs the one below, so that the top of the building sticks out 23 ft. farther than the bottom. This unusual construction helps block out sunlight on steamy summer afternoons, thus reducing the need for air conditioning. But during the winter, when the sun is lower in the southern sky, the warming rays will be able to shine into offices and provide natural heating...