Word: time
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Yankee basher who has proclaimed, "Our destiny is not to become the vassals of an immense empire of profit." Spurred by Lang, who has gone so far as to appoint a rock-'n'-roll minister to encourage French rockers, non-French programming is limited to 40% of available air time on the state-run radio stations. But even Alain Finkelkraut, the highbrow French essayist and critic who is no friend of pop culture, concedes, "As painful as it may be for the French to bear, their rock stars just don't have the same appeal as the British...
Barbara's attempt to keep the spirit of peace and good cheer alive at a time of trouble is part of a long tradition. White House Christmases have often been bittersweet affairs. None was bleaker than the 1963 holiday, observed under the shadow of John F. Kennedy's assassination. Back in 1929, just a few weeks after the stock-market crash, Herbert Hoover's family was having Christmas Eve dinner when fire broke out in the west wing of the White House. As fire trucks clanged, Lou Hoover gathered her grandchildren and read them Christmas stories to calm their fears...
...deal with endless time...
...process of survival itself chews up enormous time. It's so absolutely fatiguing. You spend so much time and energy trying to avoid mistakes. One of us rephrased an old saying that we put at the top of our written rules: "Yesterday's gone. Tomorrow will come if we survive today...
Fears for the biosphere are still strong around the world, but the expectations of Earth Day have given way to endless debate and procrastination. A TIME poll highlights the public confusion that has helped produce the present policy paralysis...