Word: setting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...single generation from mud huts to trim low-cost housing, free education for their children through the university level, and free medical care in modern hospitals. Fahd managed affairs with Bedouin shrewdness. He insisted that as soon as a project was approved, money for it had to be set aside. The practice horrified financial advisers who thought the cash should be invested to earn interest, but when oil prices broke and the kingdom's oil income plunged to $20 billion annually or less, Fahd, then King, did not have to cancel any projects...
...cable-television industry was deregulated in 1984, critics began calling for new government controls. Many consumers wanted to curb fast- rising rates, while would-be cable competitors wanted authority to enter the business. Last week the House approved a bill that would empower the Federal Communications Commission to set rates for basic service and would require cable firms to lease channels to potential competitors at reasonable prices. But prospects for the bill are uncertain. The Senate is unlikely to complete the legislation before Congress adjourns Oct. 5. Cable operators are generally unhappy with the House bill. But they would...
...these women, with Codi's help, who set out to save the town from the mining company. Kingsolver introduces other complications, particularly the fate of Hallie, who has been captured by the U.S.-supported contras. To say everything is resolved happily would be misleading, but one hint may be allowed. Anyone who thinks a giant mining concern is any match for the Grace Stitch and Bitch Club has a lot to learn about eco-feminist novels...
Junior Spencer Punter paced Harvard, finishing second to Penn's Jarrod Neas with a time of 25:19. Punter and Todd Wells broke up a pack of Penn and Cornell runners at the one-mile mark and set the pace for Harvard's top five finishers, who stayed close behind...
...premise of Metropolitan might immediately strike some as odious, and the near-masturbatory depiction of the lifestyle of the leisure set might also strike some as pretentious. The film at times seems to be self-satirizing, but the wit in Metropolitan is rarely meanspirited enough to be satirical. But Stillman, who directed, produced and wrote the work, saves the film from a sure, sudden death by carefully drawing characters who communicate through precariously graceful dialogue...