Word: setting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...warm ceilings, a gently rotating fan will even things out so you don't have to turn the heat up so high. (In summer switch the direction of the blades and increase the speed. The wind chill will make it feel like 72 degrees, even though the thermostat's set at 78 degrees.) A ceiling fan, says the weather lady, takes no more energy than a 100-watt light bulb...
...them to assimilate or flee to Turkey. His successor, Petar Mladenov, reversed that policy. Prime Minister Georgi Atanasov told angry demonstrators, "If we Bulgarians want to be free, then all the people must be free." Last week the National Assembly approved measures that guarantee rights for the Turks, and set up a commission to review the issue...
...even if Blades did, he wouldn't let it stop him. When not singing or acting, Blades unwinds by painting watercolors ("mostly faces") or reading (George Orwell and Hunter S. Thompson). His goals include writing and directing a film set in Panama, making a documentary feature and recording an all-instrumental album. Meanwhile Blades' fearless muse is once again pointing him toward uncharted musical waters. "I already know something is brewing," he says. "Some people will be surprised." And a few more walls will come tumbling down...
Nationally, the attention generated by the McMartin case set off an explosion in the reported instances of child sexual abuse, to an estimated 350,000 in 1988, vs. 6,000 in 1976. Judicial reforms have been adopted to protect young victims from being brutalized a second time in court. Specially trained professionals question children more carefully now. More than half the states protect children from having to testify in open court, allowing either videotaped or closed-circuit testimony. That protection will be tested by the Supreme Court. Last week the Justices agreed to consider two cases in which defendants argue...
...furniture anymore," says Harold. "Now our customers are educated Americans who don't survive on an income; rather, they have large sums of capital from the sale of a company or real estate." The most celebrated collector is Bill Cosby, who includes reproductions of Early American furniture on the set of his television show...