Word: talese
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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At a tense meeting that afternoon with local officials and factory directors, Yeltsin dismissed Panskov's arguments and promised to reinstate a tax break for failing companies that had been removed last year under pressure from the IMF. "These people are trying to hide their profits and dodge taxes," Panskov...
On Jan. 10 of last year, he strode to the podium of the Old Wardroom dining hall at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut, to inspire the 118 cadets of Bravo Company and their guests with tales of Coast Guard glory. Aiming to start on a light note...
The Cuban romance with biotechnology began in 1980, when a visiting U.S. physician regaled Castro with tales of the latest wonder drug, interferon. Intrigued, Castro directed Dr. Manuel Limonta, a young Cuban hematologist and immunologist, to set up a facility to manufacture the protein. At first, Limonta and his small...
This impulse was vain, of course, in two meanings of the word, if also understandably, foolishly human. Ennobling myths and fairy tales are not passed on through the knickknacks of heroes and heroines.
Since 1939, when Judy Garland first introduced millions of Americans to the wonders of Technicolor, The Wizard of Oz has been an important part of American culture. Uproot the entire story, drop it into the African-American world of the 1970's, and Frank Baum's classic childrens' story becomes...