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Word: blanket (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some work," says Reardon. "I was hoping that someone would come forward and want their name put on it, but that hasn't happened." Reardon cites problems with the filtering system and rotting wood on the windows as areas needing attention. The department also plans to install an insulating blanket over the swimming pool to reduce the building's excessive humidity. "It's so humid that now if you paint anything in there it peels off." Reardon says. Anderson says the department would like to refurbish the entire building, but because of financial restraints, "we're looking at it with...

Author: By Thomas J. Meyer, | Title: Building (and Rebuilding) for Success | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

...case was a textbook illustration of the absurdity of South Africa's rigid apartheid policy. In a field on the outskirts of Pretoria, a black worker came upon a two-week-old infant wrapped in a blanket, her head covered with a paper bag. The abandoned baby was taken to a nearby hospital, where nurses named her Lize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Hairline Call | 8/8/1983 | See Source »

...important to remember that the Klan is only the tip of the iceberg, the most visible and obvious manifestation of the entrenched racism in our society." The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, as well as the Administration and the A.F.T., have publicly challenged this blanket indictment of U.S. society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: How to Anger the President | 7/18/1983 | See Source »

...someone would come forward and want their name put on it, but that hasn't happened." Reardon cites problems with the filtering system for the 50-year-old building's pool and rotting wood on the windows as areas needing attention. The department also plans to install an insulating blanket over the swimming pool to reduce the building's excessive humidity. "It's so humid that now if you paint anything in there it peals off," Reardon says. Anderson says the department would like to refurbish the entire building, but because of financial restraints, "we're looking at it with...

Author: By Thomas J. Meyer, | Title: Building(and Rebuilding) for Success | 6/9/1983 | See Source »

...Inter-Faith Center, for example, a largely Roman Catholic organization, a blanket call for divestiture has been rejected as too extreme. The group instead works for a platform in opposition to bank loans to South Africa, new investment in the country, sales to the military or police forces of South Africa, and Krugerrand sales in this country. Krugerrands are gold coins minted by the South African government...

Author: By Robert M. Neer, | Title: The Making of a Movement | 6/9/1983 | See Source »

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