Word: burner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Peking has seemed unwilling either to give Reagan credit for coming a long way or to cooperate with him in putting the Taiwan issue on the back burner. The Chinese have chosen instead to keep the heat on. Reagan defended his approval of the Shanghai II communiqué against right-wing critics by pointing out that the U.S. promise to reduce arms sales to Taiwan was linked to China's commitment to peaceful resolution of the island's future. The Chinese Communist Party daily Renmin Ribao attacked the President for "completely violating" the spirit of the communiqu...
Daniel Yergin and his co-authors though, have issued a clear warning to the U.S. and the world to work out a coherent energy policy before time runs out. Global Security is an important book which conveys the immediacy of an energy problem pushed to the back-burner by the current administration that believes "the only energy crisis is the existence of the Department of Energy...
...produced almost as many self-portraits as Rembrandt, who painted himself 60 times. The first face of Raphael Soyer is dated 1917. The artist printed it on a sheet of cheap paper with engraving plates he heated on the gas burner in the family kitchen in The Bronx. Though coarsely crosshatched, its composition a tad askew, the engraving is a riveting reflection of the artist at 18, staring at the mirror with the same unswerving, enigmatic gaze that he would cast upon the world for the next 60-odd years of self-portraiture. By 1920 Soyer had a lithographic crayon...
...says Tom O'Brian, a New York banker involved in the fair's private financing. "I see nothing wrong with a return commensurate with that risk." As for Butcher, he is nonchalant about his role. "Every project," he says, "needs a shepherd." By staging a "super barn burner" of a World's Fair, he claims, Knoxville "got 30 years of growth in five years...
...Cinematographer Tony Richmond (The Greek Tycoon), 39, married last August. "I'm very old-fashioned," says the Houston dentist's daughter. "I've wanted babies ever since I was a little girl." A heady rise from shampoo commercials to Angel to film actress kept the yearning on the back burner until her pregnant Jackie Kennedy role. That message was too strong to ignore...