Word: explainers
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Nachtwey has never become jaded by war, which helps explain why his photographs are so powerful. "You're never the same," he says. "Each time, you're left with an awareness of something very dark and cruel that you have to carry with you always. You pay a price, you carry the weight, you lose sleep." To convey that sensibility to others, Nachtwey published a remarkable volume of photographs last year called Deeds of War. It was dedicated to all those who have "helped a stranger and asked for nothing in return...
...balanced budget, deficits mean tax increases, spending cuts or both. Moreover, many states have been hiking taxes to make up for declining federal funds for clean water, job training, low-income housing and sewage treatment. Increased state and local taxes, as well as a larger Social Security bite, explain why, for all the ballyhoo over the Reagan-era tax cuts, Americans today pay roughly 22% of their income in taxes, just as they...
...purpose the voters understand. California's gas tax was presented as a "user fee" that would translate into relief for overcrowded highways. A $5 million campaign for Proposition 111 and its companion Proposition 108 spelled out the spending goals to the last detail. "Our strategy was to explain that this 5 cents a gallon is $5 a month to the average family of four," says assemblyman Richard Katz. "If you live in the San Fernando Valley, that gets you two lanes on the Simi Valley Freeway and an additional lane in each direction on the Ventura Freeway...
...Turow's straight-arrow character may explain, better than anything else, why his books have struck a responsive public chord. His plots and characters revolve around a nexus of old-fashioned values: honesty, loyalty, trust. When these values are violated -- sometimes salaciously, always entertainingly -- lawyers and the legal system rush in to try to set things right again. But the central quest in Turow's fiction is not for favorable verdicts but for the redemption of souls, the healing of society. Best sellers seldom get more serious than that...
...offer a small, personalized service. Weactually care," Hufton says, suggesting that thispersonal approach may help explain the largepercentage of prize-winning theses--four of the 10concentrators won Hoopes prizes...