Word: tape
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...include these items in my accounts, then turn off toward the bay, which is winter blue already. The powerboats have disappeared. The cormorants swarm in a black mass near the mouth of a creek, their snake heads craning for invisible fish. I watch for a while, slip in a tape of k.d. lang and add these things to my list as well...
VANCOUVER: APEC summits once had the atmosphere of a ticker tape parade trumpeting the miraculous economic growth of Asian economies. This week, however, the Asian Tigers limped to Vancouver in search of a solution to the currency crisis ravaging their economies. Even though the summit was upbeat about Asia's economic fundamentals, its decision to create an IMF bailout formula, with attendant political risks, was the strongest indicator of the depth of the crisis...
...would not sell his mother to have these birds back in the Oval Office for only a day, scheming, brooding, drawing up enemies lists, conniving about "Plumbers"? The most entertaining of the tape excerpts, to me, has Nixon raging about the threat of impeachment to his press secretary Ron Ziegler, when his dog, King Timahoe, suddenly jumps up on him: "Christ, impeach the President on John Dean's word... there's a cancer in the heart of the White House, on the heart of the presidency. [The dog barks.] King! Goddam, get off me! But they can't want, frankly...
...their theory to the test, researchers took over the wine shelves in a local supermarket. They displayed four French and four German wines "matched for their price and dryness or sweetness," indicating the origin of each vintage with a French or German flag. For two weeks, from a tape deck on an upper shelf, they played their own homemade Muzak, alternating days of French accordion and German beer-hall music...
...only major changes in public education in the second half of the century have been demographic in nature. The national debate over methods of instruction in reading continues unabated. Sometime back, a savvy old primary teacher summed it up; she said the only thing new in education is Scotch tape. DANIEL A. WELCH Retired School Administrator Rochester Hills, Mich...