Word: welling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Starkov in 1978. It has grown to the astonishing circulation of 26 million, specializes in service features and has published other reader polls. It has thrived on controversy in the past, publishing glasnost-enlightened statistics on the number of Stalin's victims and the country's budget deficit, as well as admiring profiles of Western millionaires. But a poll that gave top ratings to Gorbachev's leading critics clearly had tested, and broken, glasnost's boundaries. It was hardly the type / of news Gorbachev and other leaders wanted to read at a time when support for the party was visibly...
Still, as last week's quake in San Francisco demonstrated only too well, it does not take a Big One to deal a lethal blow. For this reason, some geologists think that the Big One has been overemphasized as a near-term threat. There are faults up and down the California coast capable of equaling the latest quake, and that is enough reason to worry. Likely candidates for significant quakes in Northern California include not only Berkeley and Oakland but also the Silicon Valley. The Los Angeles Basin, for its part, has experienced an increase in small earthquakes, which many...
Because the treasure includes booty captured during Assyrian raids, the discoveries may shed light on other cultures as well. But beyond its scientific importance, the jewelry is stunning in its own right. Some of it displays craftsmanship that puts even Van Cleef's to shame. There is an intricate crown woven from fine gold strands; a flask carved flawlessly from a solid block of crystal; a pair of heavy cuffs set with stones that look like large, startled eyes; a playful necklace festooned with teardrop pendants. "It sets a magnificent standard," says Georgina Herrmann, an archaeologist at the British Institute...
Jean-Jacques Annaud's captivating fable comes to the U.S. after earning a phenomenal $100 million in Europe. -- Fat Man and Little Boy: Paul Newman drops a well-meaning bomb...
...Prague's infamous Ruzyne prison. They face jail terms of up to five years if convicted under Czechoslovakia's Article 100 law banning most forms of dissident expression. Their continued detention may be the regime's way of closing down the feisty Lidove Noviny (circ. 5,000) as well as of warning protesters to stay off the streets this week as the country celebrates its 71st anniversary...