Word: setting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...set of research guidelines at Harvard Medical School should help the school's doctors avoid financial conflicts of interest without impairing their work too greatly, Dean Daniel C. Tosteson '44 said in an interview just more than a week...
...black market is right behind the white. The worldwide volume of art thefts is now epidemic: a business, according to Constance Lowenthal of New York City's International Foundation for Art Research (set up to keep records of reported art thefts), that turns over between $1 billion and $2 billion a year. That was about the global size of the legitimate art business a generation ago. Around 90% of stolen art is never found. If one wanted a perfect example of how the crazed art market has come to work against American museums and their public, what happened in Boston...
...plan's takeoff may be delayed in Congress. Some lawmakers believe that the FAA should first spend the $7.6 billion surplus already set aside in a fund for aviation improvements. Meanwhile, strain on the system keeps growing. By 2001, the FAA predicts, annual air-passenger traffic will increase an additional...
Ultimately, Hazelwood's fate turned on one question: whether he was drunk at the time of the accident. Witnesses testified that they had seen the captain drinking in Valdez bars on the afternoon before his ship set sail. The prosecution also introduced tests taken eleven hours after the crash that showed Hazelwood with a blood-alcohol level of 0.061%, higher than the Coast Guard's 0.04% limit for a seaman operating a moving vessel. But Hazelwood's lawyers suggested he might have imbibed after the accident occurred to settle his badly shattered nerves. The captain never took the witness stand...
Director Howard Davies, who staged Les Liaisons Dangereuses on Broadway, is British and, perhaps as a result, the accents are from Mars. Otherwise there is nothing to fault, from William Dudley's pillow-strewn, louvered-door set to Mark Henderson's offstage fireworks. Film veteran Charles Durning brings beguiling malice to Big Daddy, capturing the crass vitality of this aging self-made entrepreneur, while Polly Holliday, Flo on CBS-TV's erstwhile Alice, is all fluttering and giggles and connivance as his soon-to-be widow...