Word: makeing
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...mention a political necessity for Bourassa. The constitutional imbroglio revived the cause of Quebec separatism, which the Meech Lake accord had been intended to defuse. With nationalist sentiment growing, the premier could not show the slightest sign of buckling under pressure from his fellow premiers. Waiting for Bourassa to make a slip was Jacques Parizeau, leader of the opposition Parti Quebecois, the party that endorses the concept of Quebec nationhood. "Faced with what we consider wrong and profoundly humiliating," says Parizeau, "it is time for us to have our own country, our own constitution...
...life cycle of the Pacific Northwest's primeval woodlands is measured not in decades but in centuries. No amount of saplings and science can make up for years of wanton harvesting, or replace a thousand-year-old fir. Only time can do that -- and time may be short for those mills that are specially designed to devour the old firs. The owners eye the forests hungrily, knowing they cannot wait for the millions of seedlings and young trees to mature. If the industry is allowed to keep cutting, some forestry experts say, the last ancient forests outside wilderness areas could...
...crisis has forced many in Douglas County to reappraise a life-style more precious now that it is endangered. Those who work in the woods can make $35,000 to $45,000 a year. Millworkers generally make less. But the issue is more than money. They have also been forced to re-examine themselves and the ecological legacy they have been left. Douglas County has always been dependent on natural resources, though it has not always used them prudently. In the 19th century, furriers killed off many of the furbearing animals and, in so doing, their trade as well. Later...
...will reduce the East-West confrontation further. We will make a lot of progress on the road to disarmament and detente. We will still need weapons and soldiers by the year 2000 because even then we will not have freedom for nothing. I am against a disarmament policy that takes announcements as deeds. You must be sure you get something in exchange for your concessions...
...narrator, daughter Nina, is a photographer. Hence the novel's title, which suggests the documentation of the Eberhardt chronicle from 1940 to 1985. Nina's task is to make sense out of the Randall effect. It emerges slowly in the weave of story lines about the lives and times of Nina's parents and siblings. Her climactic musing over the family photos arranged before her: "Which had the most power? Freud? That analytic version of my parents' life, which insisted that Randall -- and their misery -- had its source in my mother's wackiness and should be struggled against, fought, cured...