Word: starkness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...collapsed. (The U.S. Labor Department is suing; so far, Pacific has made good on retirees' pensions; two weeks ago, Maxxam agreed to a $52 million settlement of a suit by shareholders dissatisfied with the takeover of Pacific.) Hurwitz also boosted the rate of old-growth logging; as Congressman Pete Stark, a California Democrat, put it, "looting the forest, meeting monthly interest payments by cutting thousand-year-old trees." Is there a moral issue here? A Maxxam spokesman dismisses the question, saying, "Our position is that sufficient redwoods are protected and that our trees are private property." (Redwood National Park...
...night before Jack flew to Los Angeles for the Democratic Convention, where he would be nominated for President, the two retreated into a stark hotel suite. After months of delegate hunting, the real game was afoot, and she knew that ahead lay surging crowds and screaming groupies. The moment was almost desolate, the beginning of something strange and maybe not nice. It was in Jackie's circled eyes. She could not raise room service. She found Cokes, remade the bed while her husband talked Vice Presidents with a friend...
...care plan is lost without the big Chicagoan. That may be overstating it. In the event of his ouster, Florida's Sam Gibbons becomes the acting chairman and would be expected to work with three committee members -- New York's Charles Rangel and California's Robert Matsui and Pete Stark -- to try to usher Rosty's vision through Ways and Means. Clinton no doubt hopes that between them, they are up to Rostenkowski...
...important issues such as crime, welfare reform, economic development, education and other critical matters, I will offer my own package in stark contrast with both this Republican governor, as well as the Democratic legislators running for governor," Bachrach said...
Consider for a moment our beloved Undergraduate Council. Roughly 11 percent of its 80 members are Asians, in stark contrast to the 20 percent of the overall Harvard community who are Asian. Compare this to the fact that 23 percent of the council is African-American, an impressive number especially since only eight percent of the student population is Black. The Hispanic population, is making up seven percent of Harvard undergraduates, also finds the council representative with seven percent of its members being Hispanic...