Word: writes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Students write it. Faculty egos rise and fall with it. Junior professors' and graduate students' careers may hinge...
...legislators would like to duck the whole problem. Their strategy is to provide what De la Garza calls a "blood transfusion" to farmers in the form of a quick and major expansion of credit guarantees and buy time to figure out what longer-range reforms to make. Congress must write some sort of farm bill by Sept. 30, unless it wants to reinstitute the 1949 law, which provided much higher price supports than anyone would advocate now (all subsequent farm laws, including the one passed in 1981, technically have been amendments to the 1949 act, passed usually for four years...
...frowns and furrowed brows are understandable because Bhopal is never far away. About five people continue to die each week from aftereffects of the accident. The company announced last month that it had taken a $17.8 million write-down on its fourth-quarter earnings in order to cover costs incurred as a result of the Bhopal accident. The write-down pushed Union Carbide earnings, which would have been 44 cents a share, down to 19 cents and raised new questions about Union Carbide's ability to attract investors...
...whole unified by consistent parts. Shacochis, 33, grew up in Virginia and earned a B.A. in journalism and an M.A. in English at the University of Missouri, where he now serves as a visiting writer in residence. He also received an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa's writing program. He buttressed these academic credentials with extended periods of playing hooky, surfing and roaming about the Caribbean. This time seems well spent. Shacochis has had the commercial prudence to learn and write about an uncommonly fascinating part of the hemisphere. Better still, his talent seems more than a match...
...There aren't as many places people can go to support themselves as prose writers, magazines aren't doing so well," says O' Brien. "The National Lampoon used to be an alternative, but now it's an obscene farce. The demand now is for people who can write a funny script or fill a half an hour...