Word: soils
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps most astounding of all, the majority of the rescuers believe that the gift of goodness can be passed on. "It is like flowers growing in a certain soil," says Helena Melnyczuk, 71, who with her brother Orest, 67, and their father sheltered Jews in their house, across the street from a Ukrainian police station. "It is natural in every human being, but it must be nourished and cultivated." For that lesson alone, the rescuers deserve the world's gratitude...
...Talking Heads, the brainiest rock band of the '80s, to go solo, Byrne has found his muse in the unexpected: an album of Latin salsa (1989's Rei Momo) and a mystical orchestral soundscape (last year's The Forest). Now Byrne has transplanted his rock roots into fertile tropical soil. In UH-OH (Luaka Bop), / released last week, jangling electric-guitar riffs alternate with piquant Caribbean rhythms, often in the same song, while Byrne aims his quirky intelligence at sex-change operations, domestic discord and even the Deity: "Well God can turn the world around/ And he can push...
...LISTING of the great millennia always reminds me of the cross-sections of soil levels that we learned in science class. Topsoil, sedentary soil, shale coal, diamonds, oil, primordial sludge, fire brimstone the boogey monster and the other side of the globe...
...communists within the ruling National Salvation Front have blocked any deeper reform. The moves so far have served mainly to spur inflation and unemployment without easing the severe shortages of all consumer goods, including food. Bulgaria at least has enough to eat, thanks largely to the fertility of its soil and the skill of its farmers. It has also made some progress toward political freedom: incumbent President Zhelyu Zhelev, chosen in 1990 by the parliament, won the nation's first direct presidential election last month against an opponent who accused him of trying to impose an "alien" system -- a market...
...White House, Japan's affluence and economic nationalism make tempting targets. Japan owes its current prominence to, along with the recession, the President's sorrowful swoon at the Sparkplug Summit in Tokyo. Never before has the nation's Globe-Trotter in Chief seemed so woefully ill prepared on foreign soil. Bush was unable to articulate a coherent rationale, other than pity, for why Japan should liberalize its economic system to reduce its trade surplus with the U.S. With a carping chorus of car executives and a patronizing lecture from Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa, the Bush visit became the free- trade...