Word: skies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...morning we joined the lines of commuters heading into Minneapolis. He did not look forward to facing the rest of the bank's directors, he was tired and felt as he had prior to "a previous emotional altercation." A light rain on the windshield mixed the city with the sky, making the outline of the buildings nearly indistinguishable and their colors a forbidding grey. He mumbled of Conrad, of Zen and motorcycle maintenance, of his friend Robert Pirsig and his aircraft. I opened the door at the air terminal and turned to shake his hand and say "Thank...
...worst-case scenario: a country with sky-high oil debts defaults on its loans to a major bank, causing that bank, and eventually others as well, to fail. Financial panic then spreads around the globe, bringing world trade and commerce to a crawl, much as happened during the Great Depression...
...alien spacecraft that exploded while trying to land on earth. A hit by a stray bit of antimatter, or a speeding mini-black hole, or the head of a comet. These are some of the fanciful theories offered over the years to explain the fireball in the sky and the giant explosion that devastated a remote region of Siberia on June 30, 1908, leveling trees for miles around, knocking over huts, stampeding reindeer and creating an enormous shock wave detected around the world...
...Surrey village Wodehousefully named Chipping Sodbury, worked for eight years as a Madison Avenue copywriter to finance his career as a novelist. The experience appears to have sharpened his sense of irony. He writes lyrically of the terrain of Spain, of the "vast and seamless tent" of sky above Madrid. Like his hero, who never set foot in England, Robinson has never even seen Madrid...
...good news is that thanks to the bad news of the energy crisis and sky-high prices, the prevalent habit of mindless waste may be in the early stages of a reversal. At least some Americans are beginning to pay attention to small savings that were regarded as inconsequential only yesterday. A new scrimpy spirit is most noticeable in direct efforts to conserve gas and other fuels, but it is also emerging in the other routine logistics of daily living...