Word: skies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...above filters out the ultraviolet light that can damage pigment, while stainless-steel baffles scatter the sun's beams, which are further diffused by pebble-grained glass panels set in the ceiling's grid. The arrangement imparts a subtle variety to many a familiar painting as the sky changes. The impressionists, in particular, take on a new animation, since they painted en plein air and strove to capture the different aspects that nature's changing light could give the same scene...
...hyperinflationary period. For many months, investors have been putting their cash into hard, tangible assets, especially gold and silver. Speculators then jumped in, buying more with borrowed money and driving prices to levels beyond all reason. Markets gripped by such frenzy are always vulnerable, especially in a time of sky-high interest rates. Any drop in prices causes some speculators, unwilling to keep paying high interest on their loans, to sell out. The further drop caused by their selling leads to forced sales by other speculators unable to meet their creditors' margin calls-demands for more cash because...
...shell game, a monstrous, 180-ft.-long TEL (transporter-erector-launcher) would laboriously haul the MX from one shelter to another. Or the TEL might leave the missile in place for a while and carry a dummy MX to another shelter or around the course. Watching from the sky, Soviet spy satellites could never be sure exactly where the missile was and hence would have to target all 23 shelters on each of the 200 tracks for a pre-emptive attack...
...calculated to inspire fear and respect. Thus begins the daily ritual of checking and opening the highways through Kabul Gorge, Sarobi and Jalalabad to the Khyber Pass (the east); to Ghazni and Kandahar (the south); and to the Salang Pass and the Soviet frontier (the north). Other helicopter forces-sky caravans in what was once a land of camel caravans -fly farther, on missions and reinforcement flights to the eastern provinces of Paktia and Kunar, where a spring offensive against the mujahidin, the anti-Communist guerrillas, is under...
...starting time, the sun had set and the sky painted a navy blue backdrop, with traces of pink scraping the horizon...