Word: aluminum
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...constitutional right to abortion, and he has repeatedly dissented from court decisions banning prayer in schools. Court decisions upholding affirmative action have regularly drawn his scornful dissents. "There is perhaps no device more destructive to the notion of equality than the . . . quota," Rehnquist wrote in United Steelworkers and Kaiser Aluminum vs. Weber in 1979. He adamantly opposes court-ordered busing to remedy school segregation. The Constitution, he wrote in a dissent from a 1979 decision upholding busing in Columbus, does not require local school boards to "follow a policy of integration uber alles...
Despite its high-tech tools, ILM uses homey techniques as well. Clouds might be simulated by wads of cotton, the dirt on a remote planet by a pile of cork. The walls of the mine in Indiana Jones were made of scrunched-up aluminum foil, spray-painted to look like rocks. "We have no commitment to using the most sophisticated techniques," says Warren Franklin, ILM's general manager. "We go with what works...
...aluminum siding salesman, Ueberroth was born in Evanston, Ill. on September 2, 1937. When he was 14, after his father became ill, Ueberroth began working a variety of odd jobs. He became increasingly independent, and by the time he was in high school, he had begun to pay his own bills. In Ueberroth's junior year, he moved out of the house to live and work at an orphanage as the recreational director...
...Greek thalassa, or sea. Guests lie naked on a table while their bodies are painted with a deep-green seaweed paste. Then they are wrapped cocoon-like in a large plastic-coated heating blanket and roasted gently for 20 minutes. A shower, then a rewrapping, this time in aluminum foil for another 20 minutes, after which they shower again and stagger off to rest. The spa stresses elegance. Fresh flowers are ( everywhere, and gourmet, though low-cal, meals are served on china. Clients, however, dine informally in sweats. Like the Golden Door, Cal-a-Vie tries to send guests...
...name from the Harvard house where a majority of the founding members spent their undergraduate days. Although the firm originally planned to write only corporate histories for clients, the Winthrop Group has branched out into corporate culture surveys, executive education, and archive management, Allen says. Past clients include Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA), AT&T and Motorola, he says...