Word: note
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Securities lobbyists, in a desperate attempt to marshal opponents on Capitol Hill, immediately labeled the transfer levy a "tax on savings." Other critics note that Brady's own commission pointed out that a similar plan proposed by lawmakers in October 1987 helped trigger the crash...
...personal, somewhat awkward but elucidating note: in 1984 Fossey wrote me that she had read my review of Gorillas in the Mist over the graves of Digit, Uncle Bert and Macho. "I could finally comprehend," she said, "that the gorilla individuals I had known and named over the years since 1967 might well become public figures, not on a rock-star scale, but renowned for their own worth, lamented for their loss." Postscript: Fossey is buried next to them...
...practical joke fervor, we left nothing to chance. We posted the notices in the same space as the others. We pointed the notices out with concerned faces to people we hardly knew in our dorm. We asked around if anyone knew what tungsten sulfate was (note: there is no such thing as "tungsten sulfate compounds...
...celebrate. The author has not only remained popular with readers; he is also in demand on television and in concert halls. Last February he conducted the Minneapolis Chamber Symphony in the last movement of Beethoven's Ninth -- no mean accomplishment for a man who could not read a note. Next fall he will work with the same musicians in Suite for Kindergarten, a piece he commissioned. One PBS special was broadcast last Thanksgiving; another will air next year. Random House is currently offering a seven-figure contract for the next collection of his thoughts. And the Rev. Robert Fulghum bobs...
South Korean politicians unanimously support retaining U.S. troops. They note that while Seoul fields a 650,000-man army, North Korea's Soviet-equipped force is more than 1 million strong. Just as worrisome is Kim Il Sung's unpredictability, amply demonstrated in his complicity in terrorist acts like the bombing of a Korean Air Lines flight in 1987 that killed 115 people. Many fear he could become even more dangerous if he felt threatened by the kind of reforms that have toppled communist dictators in Eastern Europe...