Word: setting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Elsewhere in Furstenwalde it was much the same: plenty of looking, little buying. "I have 5,000 marks (($3,000)) in my bank account, and I'm thinking about a stereo set," said Dirk Juttner, 21, an unmarried construction worker who stood outside the show window of a newly opened electronics store jammed with Sony TV sets, Toshiba CD players and Grundig stereos. "But I'll shop around for a good price...
...doubt that the stage has been set for a war of the widows, an icy clash of politics and personalities that has already galvanized the nation by pitting the country's most powerful women against each other. "Everybody is shivering with excitement," says Teodoro Benigno, who served as Aquino's press secretary until 1989. "It's the Cory mystique against the Imelda mystique...
...breakup of the old partnerships between Western oil companies and the producing countries led to a chaotic era in the late 1970s and early 1980s of free-swinging prices set almost purely by market forces. But in the past few years the oil industry has been seeking new collaborations to restore some stability to both supply and demand. Explains Saudi Oil Minister Hisham Nazer: "We have become an integral part of the oil market of the U.S.A., and the return on our investment depends on the health of that market. This is a mutual benefit...
Still, with upkeep of a 105-ft. by 84-ft. lawn running about $4,000 a year and a set of croquet equipment costing as much as $3,500, the sport's appeal to the masses is limited. The court at Sonoma-Cutrer, built on 16 in. of sand from Bodega Bay, is mowed three times a day during the tournament to exactly three-sixteenths of an inch by lawn-mower blades with the precision of Ginsu knives and then groomed with a metal comb by a greenkeeper. The dependable sogginess that keeps British courts so lush is helped along...
...depictions of sadomasochism, homoeroticism, the exploitation of children, or individuals engaged in sex acts." None of those who refused the money produces material that remotely qualifies as obscene. But all of them object to the vague, sweeping language and to the very idea of empowering NEA bureaucrats to set a national standard for obscenity, a matter the Supreme Court has repeatedly said should be regulated by the varying norms of individual communities...