Citations with the tag: CURRENT events
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- Reaching for the Sky.
// Scholastic News -- Edition 4; 9/11/2006, Vol. 69 Issue 2, p8A quiz concerning current events in the U.S. is presented.
- In the headlines.
// World Almanac for Kids; 1998, p12Presents people and events in the headlines from 1996 through 1998. Reelection of Bill Clinton as president of the United States in 1996; Record set by American astronaut Shannon Lucid for time spent in space, aboard the Russian space station Mir; Naming of Madeleine Albright as United States...
- Memo calendar.
// Architecture Australia; Jan/Feb95, Vol. 84 Issue 1, p86Presents information on events scheduled to take place in Australia and other countries. Dates; Location of events; Contact numbers.
- Memo calendar.
// Architecture Australia; Mar/Apr95, Vol. 84 Issue 2, p98Presents information on various events taking place in Australia and across the continent. Dates; location of events; Contact numbers.
- Illogical reaction.
// Orange County Business Journal; 12/16/96, Vol. 19 Issue 51, p38Comments on various controversial developments which occurred in Orange County, California. Possible effects on residents.
- Datebook.
// Crain's Chicago Business; 11/18/96, Vol. 19 Issue 47, p41Presents a calendar of events in Chicago, Illinois from November 25th through December 1st, 1996. Information includes benefits, collections. dinners, and ceremonies.
- Bonaparte in 1803; a rifle in 1903; what next in 2003?
Brady, James // Crain's New York Business; 12/23/2002, Vol. 18 Issue 51, p9Focuses on the key events that happened in the U.S. during the year 2002 which will be remembered with reference to earlier historical events. Losses in the field of politics; Evaluation of Peter S. Kalikow's credentials for becoming the chairman of Metropolitan Transit Authority; Question of...
- 1998: The year that was ...
Brady, James // Crain's New York Business; 12/21/98, Vol. 14 Issue 51, p9Looks back on key developments and events that happened in 1998, which are of interest to New York City. Includes Mayor Rudy Giuliani's war on cab drivers; Decision of WQEW to drop musical greats in favor of programs for children; Looting of District Council 37; Rally held by Reverend Louis...
- ... and the year that wasn't.
Malanga, Steve // Crain's New York Business; 12/21/98, Vol. 14 Issue 51, p9Enumerates key developments and events that did not push through in New York City in 1998. Includes Mayor Rudy Giuliani's resignation; Merger between Citicorp/Travelers/Salomon Smith Barney and Chase; Publication of a book by Donald Trump.
- Etceteras.
Malanga, Steve // Christian Science Monitor; 7/7/95, Vol. 87 Issue 155, p2Presents newsbriefs as reported on July 7, 1995. Bankruptcy of Smith Corona Corp., US typewriter manufacturer; Plan of officials on Crookston, Minnesota, for construction of a statue of Bigfoot, city's current mascot, the ox cart; More.
- Etceteras.
Malanga, Steve // Christian Science Monitor; 7/10/95, Vol. 87 Issue 156, p2No abstract available.
- Odds and ends...
Malanga, Steve // Christian Science Monitor; 5/22/97, Vol. 89 Issue 124, p20Editorial. Focuses on various unrelated issues in the United States. Information on bribery in business enterprises; Embarassing moments faced by couples while having dinner; Information on squash seeds from a Mexican cave; Detailed information provided.
- In the news this week...
Malanga, Steve // Current Events; 1/18/91, Vol. 90 Issue 15, p1Presents brief news stories of interest to readers. Warning on secondhand smoke from Harvard scientists; Supreme Court opens new term facing some tough cases; World's radio telescopes tuned for messages from outer space; Targets of telescopes; More.
- Word of mouth.
Baldinger, Scott; Matusik, Angela // Harper's Bazaar; May94, Issue 3390, p76Presents lifestyle-related news. Opening of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in May 1994; A way to enjoy the opening of the Channel Tunnel linking England and France; Eric Bogosian's play about Generation X called `SubUrbia'; `Bill Clinton and His Family Paper Dolls' from...
- Top 24 stories: What you read on AzBiz online.
Baldinger, Scott; Matusik, Angela // Inside Tucson Business; 12/28/2009, Vol. 19 Issue 30, p3The article lists the top 24 stories for 2009 in Tucson, Arizona including the election results for Tucson city council on November 3, National Rifle Association (NRA) against anti-gun laws, and the resignations for former First Magnos executives from StoneWater Mortgage.
- National report.
Baldinger, Scott; Matusik, Angela // Jet; 5/21/90, Vol. 78 Issue 6, p4Summarizes some of the national events of special interest to black Americans, including the building of a Roy Wilkins memorial and a Freedom Fund dinner that raised $1 million for NAACP projects.
- News.
Baldinger, Scott; Matusik, Angela // National Provisioner; Jan96, Vol. 210 Issue 1, p69Presents brief reports on various events. Announcement by the Federal Trade Commission on Devro International plc's acquisition of Teepak Incorporated; Opening of a technical research and training center by FMC Corporation; Acquisition by Technology Flavors and Fragrances; Epansion by Christian...
- Forteana.
Sieveking, P. // New Statesman & Society; 3/1/91, Vol. 4 Issue 140, p47Opinion. Compiles a hand-picked review of the weird and wonderful.
- Forteana.
Sieveking, P. // New Statesman & Society; 4/5/91, Vol. 4 Issue 145, p31Opinion. Presents a hand-picked review of the weird and wonderful.
- Forteana.
Sieveking, P. // New Statesman & Society; 5/10/91, Vol. 4 Issue 150, p47Presents a hand-picked review of the weird and wonderful including the belief that other seafarers had already landed in the New World before Christopher Columbus. Story of Rip Van Winkle; Davy Crockett; More.
- Native nouse.
Cockburn, A. // New Statesman & Society; 6/21/91, Vol. 4 Issue 156, p32Presents the author's American diary and mourns the decision to drop `Socialist' from the Soviet Union's name. Also discusses the admirers of Lenin; Senator Ted Stevens' objection to an exhibit at the Smithsonian entitled, `The West As America';Details.
- Forteana.
Sieveking, P. // New Statesman & Society; 6/21/91, Vol. 4 Issue 156, p55Presents a hand-picked review of the weird and wonderful, this week focusing on a condition called Stendhal Syndrome in which tourists suffering from panic almost collapse. Professor Graziella Magherini's psychiatric ward in Italy and research done; Symptoms; Treatment; Details.
- Notebook.
Sieveking, P. // New Statesman & Society; 8/9/91, Vol. 4 Issue 163, p5Comments on various issues of interest in England. Lack of a strong reaction from Brian Sedgemore to the BCCI affair; The Johnson Matthey affair; Bank of England's dealing with Johnson Matthey; T&G official Jack Dromey and his decision to re-enter the race for the post of deputy general...
- Notebook.
Shoreditch // New Statesman & Society; 8/23/91, Vol. 4 Issue 165, p5Comments on several diverse happenings in England. Official response to the overthrow of Gorbachev; Predicted first British Cabinet casualty of the Soviet coup; Consortium that claims to be bidding for ownership of NSS; More.
- Diary.
French, S. // New Statesman & Society; 10/4/91, Vol. 4 Issue 171, p8Reflects on the significance of chance associations. Lessons learned by the author's experience reading the `A to Z' street guide in search of patterns in street names; Links between two men who died on September 25, 1991--former Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie and Theodore Giesel, better known as...
- Time for change.
Halliday, F. // New Statesman & Society; 5/15/92, Vol. 5 Issue 202, p17Reflects on a number of issues in the American political scene. Role of feminism in the upcoming elections; Relations with Cuba in the wake of the Libya-Lockerbie crisis; Speech style of candidate Jerry Brown; Conditions in the Dupont Circle area of Washington.
- Diary dates.
Halliday, F. // NZ Business; Dec95/Jan96, Vol. 9 Issue 11, p8Presents the dates and events of seminars, conferences and exhibitions in New Zealand.
- Washington update.
Long, R. // Reading Today; Feb/Mar90, Vol. 7 Issue 4, p3Summarizes the current events in Washington that will have an impact on education and literacy, including the upcoming elections and the budget deficit.
- State of the World, 1984.
Long, R. // Scholastic Update; 10/19/84, Vol. 118 Issue 3This entire issue deals with current world affairs. A chart lists the nations of the world with their area, population, language, and other data. A world atlas indicates locations, crops, political alignments.
- A nation thrust to the Right.
Long, R. // Scholastic Update; 12/14/84, Vol. 118 Issue 7, p12James McGregor Burns writes that the most important event of 1984 was the peaking of the US's conservative trend. This conservative victory may be consolidated in the Supreme Court when Reagan makes several new appointments, but otherwise conservatism may be rather fragile although it now seems...
- Smithsonian horizons.
Adams, Nathaniel // Smithsonian; Aug92, Vol. 23 Issue 5, p10Explains how minute, seemingly random shifts in a series of events may set off results that move in quite different directions. The special prominence that political opinion polls assume in an election year; The need to incorporate passions into surveys of American popular sentiment not just...
- On the agenda.
Adams, Nathaniel // Westchester County Business Journal; 11/20/95, Vol. 34 Issue 47, p33Presents information on events' times, and places. Business meetings; Health and fitness; Education; Others.
- Furthermore...
Adams, Nathaniel // Christian Century; 6/13/90, Vol. 107 Issue 19, p594Reports on the U.S. Supreme Courts' refusal to reconsider the peyote case. Bibles distributed in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe; Bangladesh ban on Bengali edition of the New Testament dropped.
- Century marks.
Adams, Nathaniel // Christian Century; 5/1/91, Vol. 108 Issue 15, p477Presents a brief discussion of current events. Nicaraguan President Violeta Chamorro and efforts to lobby Washington for foreign aid; A misleading advertisement from Tyndale House Publications.
- Convention calendar.
Adams, Nathaniel // Black Enterprise; Aug92, Vol. 23 Issue 1, p31Highlights events of interest to African-Americans. The National Medical Association Inc.'s annual conference, scheduled for August 1-6, 1992 in San Francisco; The Conference of Minority Partners in Majority Corporate Law Firms; Annual conference of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference;...
- Checkpoints.
Lloyd, Fonda Marie; Lowery, Mark // Black Enterprise; Jun94, Vol. 24 Issue 11, p36States that five African-Americans were named recently as Rhodes scholars; Information on the radon information line being sponsored by the National Medical Association and the US Environmental Protection Agency; Grant awarded to Howard University by the US Department of Energy.
- MOMENTOUS RECENT HISTORY FROM OUR PERSPECTIVE.
Lloyd, Fonda Marie; Lowery, Mark // America; 8/31/1991, Vol. 165 Issue 5, p107No abstract available.
- Untitled.
Lloyd, Fonda Marie; Lowery, Mark // Current Events; 9/6/93, Vol. 93 Issue 2, p2Presents current news and developments. Army Rangers set to leave for Somalia; Opening of secret files on the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy; Rabies threat.
- Untitled.
Lloyd, Fonda Marie; Lowery, Mark // Current Events; 9/13/93, Vol. 93 Issue 3, p2Reports on global events in 1993. Pullout of Russian troops in Lithuania at the end of August; Aim of the World Health Organization to destroy the last stocks of the smallpox virus; Loss of radio contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.
- Untitled.
Lloyd, Fonda Marie; Lowery, Mark // Current Events; 10/11/93, Vol. 93 Issue 6, p2Presents current events around the world. Nelson Mandela's call to an end to sanctions against South Africa; United States military shift in Somalia; Biosphere 2 program termination.
- Untitled.
Lloyd, Fonda Marie; Lowery, Mark // Current Events; 10/18/93, Vol. 93 Issue 7, p2Presents various international news. Retirement of Chicago Bulls basketball player Michael Jordan; Earthquake in south-central India; China's conduction of nuclear bomb tests.
- Untitled.
Lloyd, Fonda Marie; Lowery, Mark // Current Events; 10/25/93, Vol. 93 Issue 8, p2Presents news articles on events in the United States. Toni Morrison's winning the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature; Study by Emory University indicating that handguns in the home are dangerous; Halt in American peace-keeping mission in Haiti.
- Untitled.
Lloyd, Fonda Marie; Lowery, Mark // Current Events; 11/8/93, Vol. 93 Issue 10, p2Reports on news and developments within the United States. Department of Agriculture's cynical report on school lunches; Ukraine as the world's third largest nuclear power; Carolina Panthers membership in the National Football League.
- Plan-ahead guide 1994-95.
Lloyd, Fonda Marie; Lowery, Mark // Current Events; 11/28/94, Vol. 94 Issue 11, Teacher's Guide p1Presents a schedule guide for teachers of current events. Schedule of special reports and supplement; Topics.
- Current Events teacher's guide.
Lloyd, Fonda Marie; Lowery, Mark // Current Events; 9/16/96, Vol. 96 Issue 3, following p2Presents a guide to teaching current event topics featured in the September 16, 1996 issue of `Current Events.' Drop in youth crime; Regulation of children's television programming; Map symbols; News crossword.
- Tabloid tidbits.
Goodman, W. // New Leader; 4/8/91, Vol. 74 Issue 5, p7Reflects on the public's never-ending appetite for gossip about its leaders. Focus on recent scandals surrounding former First Lady Nancy Reagan and Senator Ted Kennedy; Partisan approaches to the scandals; Media response.
- Crain's offering discount rate for schools.
Goodman, W. // Crain's Detroit Business; 4/10/95, Vol. 11 Issue 15, p24Discusses the program by Crain's Detroit Business aimed at helping business students and instructors understand what is currently happening in the world.
- Etcetera.
Goodman, W. // Christian Science Monitor; 5/19/95, Vol. 87 Issue 122, p2Reports news briefs as on May 19, 1995. Mayhem at the Denver International Airport due to a spring storm; First delivery of Boeing 777 received by United Airlines; More.
- Postcards.
Goodman, W. // American City & County; Jan1995, Vol. 110 Issue 1, p56Provides news briefs as reported on the January 1995 issue of the American City & County. Resignation of a city official in Buffalo, New York City; Attack on a Los Angeles bus driver by her estranged husband; Civil rights protest by a Chicago woman in August 1994 over 115 unpaid parking...
- Marquee.
Dawson, Faith // New Orleans Magazine; Oct96, Vol. 31 Issue 1, p32Presents information on events which will take place in New Orleans, Louisiana in October, 1996.
