Word: mining
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...have now entered a space where I will not--and cannot--follow. It's your club and not mine; you are part of an organization I cannot join. Moreover, you are now a part of a space at Harvard that you and your male friends solely control. You can invite me or not, curse me or not, denigrate me with your words and actions--or not. I cannot watch you or stand...
Salinas' message on economics has been tough talk backed by tough action. He has restored business enterprises largely to private hands, most notably by selling off the national airline and Cananea, the nation's largest copper mine. The national telephone company and Mexico's 18 banks have also been put up for sale. Since 1989, when he set out to liberalize foreign-investment regulations, $5.2 billion in new capital has flowed into Mexico, along with consumer goods once unavailable. Salinas has also rectified a dangerous reliance on oil, which produced 78% of Mexico's export income in 1982. Today...
...turned back and handed him mine. It was a cheap, blue Bic ballpoint, the kind that comes in a package of 10 for $1.98--hardly fit to be tucked into his pocket after all the autographs had been signed. He looked at me and smiled...
...first: Whose "traditional values" are the members of AALARM promoting? Each individual's? Mine? Almost anyone not familiar with the reactionary slant of this organization could endorse their vague list: "Stand up for faith, family, country, community...
...UNCERTAIN GRACE: THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF SEBASTIAO SALGADO, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The first U.S. exhibition for the Brazilian-born Salgado, a onetime economist who took up photography to document life in developing nations. Whether in a Peruvian village, an open-pit gold mine in Brazil or a refugee camp in Ethiopia, Salgado sees not just hardship, though he sees a great deal of that, but also the immemorial underpinnings of life -- tradition, community and work -- that give suffering a meaning. Through...