Word: setting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...just couldn't see doing it for one set ofpeople but not the other," said Russell, who addedshe did not think imposing an absolute ban on anyarea was necessarily the best solution...
Since his last trip to New England--a set of dates in Worcester this December to open up the current tour--Joel has tightened the set a bit. It includes fewer slow songs, and is less top-heavy with new material...
...first blast erupted in the pump room near the stern of the Norwegian- registered Mega Borg during the routine but dangerous process of lightering, transferring oil to smaller ships. The fires spread and set off more explosions, spewing burning oil and geysers of dense black smoke. With its stern slowly dropping as it filled with leaking oil, the Mega Borg seemed likely to sink, a calamity that might have released its entire cargo; if so, the prevailing currents would apparently have carried the spilled oil toward one of the nation's largest estuary systems, including a vast wildfowl refuge...
...want the U.S. to approve international standards adopted since 1984 by most European nations. These protocols would cap a company's cleanup costs at $78 million (Exxon says it has already spent $2 billion on its Valdez fiasco) and prevent nations from imposing more; yet the congressional bills would set higher liability limits in the U.S. and let the states go beyond the federal standards, as Alaska currently does. Says Alaska Governor Steve Cowper about the impact of the international rules: "The spiller gets off easy, the lawyers get rich, and you ((the states)) are left holding...
McEwan's story is set in Berlin in 1955, when the cold war was in full swing. The innocent of the title is Leonard Marnham, 25, a British post-office technician who is drafted into an undercover operation in which the allies are cooperating. And undercover is the accurate word; they are digging a tunnel in the Russian sector to pick up Soviet signals. Leonard loves his work. After living a cramped life in Tottenham, he relishes the rooms "big as meadows" in his government-issue flat and the hip manners of his co-workers. He soon learns that...