Word: work
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...left-wing government, despite ideo-logical differences with the Bush Administration, would have to work quite hard to reach the level of human rights abuses the right has achieved. While Bush continues to claim that U.S. policy is on the side of democracy in El Salvador--democracy defined as allegedly free elections in a country where the military rounds up peasants to drive them to the polls--he is increasingly identified with terror and poverty in the region...
...technology didn't exist at the time for the lens to work," the younger Wise explains. "The early lenses blinded the chickens...
...decision followed last summer's dispute over two shows supported by the NEA and the subsequent action by Congress forbidding the endowment to promote "obscene" art. By snubbing the AIDS exhibit, Frohnmayer appeared to be signaling that the NEA would now shy away from controversial work. That led to a storm of criticism from the art world and a decision by conductor Leonard Bernstein to refuse a White House offer of a 1990 National Medal of Arts. Just hours before the show was to open last week, Frohnmayer reversed himself, agreeing to release the grant. The offending catalog, however...
...great to have a library named after him. I wish some renowned figure like him would come along to save the Harvard library where I work. If only we named the Harvard Institute of International Development Library after somebody famous, then no University official would dare try to throw it away...
...giant library watching a library assistant update the stacks. As she walked through with a bucket, she picked up volumes, glanced at them for a moment, and then threw them away. Russell was particularily alarmed when she tossed out the last remaining copy of his Principia Mathematica, a brilliant work on mathematics and logic...