Word: sumer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...silver lining in the reform," says Jerry Jasinowski, economist for the National Association of Manufacturers, a group that is otherwise expecting taxes to rise for many of its members under the new plan. Any stimulative kick from interest rates would reinforce the boost supplied by the con sumer tax cut, which should give the average household 6.1% more to spend each year...
...history of illustration is at least as ancient as the clay pictographs of Sumer (3000 B.C.) and as new as the freshest video graphics. To trace the highlights of that epic would take unflagging research and a tireless, discerning eye. These are, happily, the attributes of Michel Melot, a Paris-based librarian who seems to have studied every scroll, page and poster since the origin of writing and painting...
...extraordinary academy of scribes within the circular walls of a great commercial city. Moreover, Ebla dominated an outlying area of perhaps 300,000 people, one of the largest populations of any ancient city-state. The discovery has closed the archaeological gap between Egypt and, to the east, Sumer...
...statistics, the rich fabric of an independent culture has begun to emerge, one so affluent that it may well have rivaled ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. In the halcyon years of the archive (c. 2350-2250 B.C.), the metropolis lured traders from Persia, present-day Turkey, Lebanon, Damascus, Sumer and Egypt. Students journeyed from Mari, Kish and Emar to enroll at the academy, then went back home to practice their craft. The prosperity was partly due to Ebla's agricultural acumen. One tablet records the warehousing of 548,500 measures of barley-enough for 18 million meals. Ebla may also...
Club membership rose from a handful to 30 or 40 students following Ronald Reagan's conservative landslide. Habib Malik, another graduate advisor to the club, said earlier this sumer. Malik attributed the jump to "disappointment and disgruntlement with the liberal orthodoxy on campus...