Word: southernism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hoyle, 40, a Southern-born Midwesterner educated at Harvard, became acquainted with science-related journalism in the mid-1970s as a stringer for the magazine's Boston bureau. "I reported on everything from the abortion issue to medical school cheating," he recalls. After a stint as managing editor of the New Republic, Hoyle rejoined TIME in 1981 as an associate editor specializing in foreign affairs. Scientific matters, though, were seldom far away. His first cover article, written for TIME's international editions in 1982, detailed the global hazards of acid rain...
They were. In 1972 Rowland heard a report that trace amounts of CFCs had been found in the atmosphere in both the northern and southern hemispheres. What were they doing there? The answer, as Rowland and his colleague, Mario Molina, soon found, was that there was nowhere else for them to go but into the atmosphere. CFCs in aerosol cans are sprayed directly into the air, they escape from refrigerator coils, and they evaporate quickly from liquid cleaners and slowly from plastic foams...
Bork was unswayed by the argument that by continuing the battle he would force a recorded vote on the issue, thus discomforting some of the Southern Democrats who had lined up against him. "I'm not a politician," he told the President. "I don't really understand this business of making them pay a price. I've got a life to lead." Reagan assured his nominee he would understand if he decided to pull out. The following day, Bork's wife and two sons accompanied him to a meeting with Meese...
...Peacekeeping in Southern Lebanon? What peacekeeping?" Buddy interjects...
Also yesterday, a helicopter carrying a U.S. television crew came under fire from an Iranian gunboat in the southern gulf, shipping sources reported...