Word: tenseness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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On the other hand, it is clear that the economy, as well as businesses by the tens of thousands, would suffer jolts aplenty if protracted and real chaos wrecked the smooth functioning of commercial aviation throughout the U.S. Says Robert Joedicke, an airlines industry expert with New York City'...
Fresh-cut flower markets also depend on air transport of their products. In Colorado, where about 20% of the nation's carnations are grown, wholesalers initially feared that flight cancellations would leave tens of thousands of blooms wilting alongside the runway at Denver's Stapleton International Airport. In...
In the U.S., foot-and-mouth disease has been stamped out, thanks to the Department of Agriculture's vigilant policies against importing livestock from infected areas. But elsewhere in the world, foot-and-mouth costs farmers tens of thousands of animals and billions of dollars a year. Scientists have...
Photographer Edward Weston claimed that great portraits reveal "the very bones of life." He did not include, of course, workaday, signed publicity shots of notables (or hopefuls), the glossy eight-by-tens that decorate restaurants, offices and waiting rooms with ballpoint sincerity. Those bones are less signs of inner life...
In the meantime, gay Harvard graduates have established alumni associations in Boston, New York and San Francisco, and are now forming chapters in Atlanta, Houston and Washington, D.C. The associations congregated in Boston's Park Plaza Hotel last week to plan the creation of a tax-exempt foundation that would...