Word: skies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...afternoon in Minnesota, near the headwaters of the Mississippi, the season arrived abruptly in a complex sky. Bright sun fired through slabs of blackish clouds -- tremendous lights and darks at work -- and then a dense snow pelted horizontally through the sunlit air. The American weather was transitional, bewildering. In Washington, leaves drifted from the trees in Lafayette Square. Across the street, there was a vacancy in the White House...
...Harvard is an underdog would be to say the Pope dabbles in religion. And his Holiness--not to mention the Great Signalcaller in the Sky--probably favors the Cross...
...Washington. An economy that was once based on manufacturing might and inventive genius began pursuing wealth through mergers and takeovers and the creation of new "financial instruments." Fortunes were conjured out of thin air by fresh- faced traders who created nothing more than paper -- gilded castles in the sky held aloft by red suspenders...
...supply-side tax cuts, designed to stimulate the output of goods by giving workers and businesses greater rewards, failed to produce an offsetting revenue bonanza. While sky-high interest rates and the 1981-'82 recession might be partly to blame, supply-side critics say the idea was faulty from the start. In any case, the budget deficit exploded as Government receipts shrank. The flow of red ink nearly tripled in two years, hitting $207.8 billion in fiscal 1983. It would have been even higher if Congress had not adopted a $98 billion tax increase in 1982, which Reagan grudgingly signed...
...clues to its purpose. Some scholars believe the vessels were intended to carry the spirits of the dead on their eternal journey around the earth with the sun-god Ra. They disagree, though, about whether they are so-called solar boats built for the day-time sojourn across the sky or ships intended for the nighttime voyage through the underworld. Still others speculate that they were simply funerary boats used to ferry Cheops' body down the Nile for burial. Whatever the purpose, Egyptian officials must now decide how to display their new, but still untouched, vessel...