Word: washings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Louie Belson Set for Opera House: Legends of Music Series, Friday at 8 pm, at the Opera House, 539 Wash...
Foreign matters are striking home because a flood of high-quality and attractively priced imports continues to wash over the U.S., crippling entire industries and putting millions of Americans out of work. The clearest sign of distress is the burgeoning trade deficit, which measures the gap between America's exports and its imports. TIME's board estimated that the shortfall, which is expected to reach a record $150 billion this year, cut in half the growth in the U.S. gross national product during the first six months of 1985. Without that trade deficit, the U.S. would perhaps have had growth...
...that the massive injustices of the apartheid system create a constant temptation to walk away from South Africa with some angry gesture of defiance. But if there is a moral principle that arises from holding stock in companies doing business in South Africa, it is not that we should wash our hands of the matter by simply selling our shares to someone else. Walking away will not shorten the life of apartheid by a single minute or lessen the burdens of a single black South African. For those who truly care about the injustices of apartheid, the right course...
They are the artifacts of extravagance, as flawlessly preserved as those in the tomb of King Tutankhamen. Five cases of wine with corks seemingly intact. Delicate china plates, wash basins and chamber pots, pristine and unchipped. Plump and elegant luggage that could have been packed yesterday. Seventy-three years after the "unsinkable" Titanic plowed into an iceberg and slowly slipped beneath the waves, the luxury liner has at last been found sitting nearly upright on the frigid Atlantic floor, 500 miles south of Newfoundland and more than 13,000 ft. below sea level. At that depth, the great ship...
...smuggling ring that may have sold as many as 150 infants to American couples in the past two years. Juanita Leyva-Vargas, 52, and her daughter Melinda, 25, were arrested in San Diego after they handed a five-day-old Mexican infant to Phil and Linda Phillips of Kalama, Wash. Authorities said the baby dealers operated from an unlicensed home for unwed Mexican mothers in nearby Tijuana. The ring allegedly received as much as $10,000 a child...