Word: building
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American service members who died in the Viet Nam War, eight were women. Last week, despite the fact that the Viet Nam Veterans Memorial wall in Washington lists all the dead without regard to race, rank or gender, the U.S. Senate voted 96 to 1 to build another monument at the same site to honor the women who served in Viet Nam. The proposed addition, a statue of a female nurse, still requires House approval...
...Thiokol, the company that built the booster rockets for the space shuttle Challenger, has decided to retreat from its long and painful association with the shuttle program. Last week the Chicago-based aerospace and chemical firm said it would decline to bid for the $1.5 billion NASA contract to build motors for the shuttle's next generation of solid-fuel boosters...
...from banks; only such actions will turn executives against IP. "I'd much rather see rich businessmen fight it out in the boardroom," Rogers says. "You can't embarrass them. You have to make them deal with real economic or political pressure." The question is whether the pressure will build fast enough to budge IP before the strikers lose hope...
...first things she sees, the Prince Rupert's Glassworks. Lucinda's purchase is not entirely impulsive; she has already come under the spell of glass, with the conviction "that it is invisible, solid, in short, a joyous and paradoxical thing, as good a material as any to build a life from." The unconventional young factory owner soon finds another obsession in the freewheeling world of Sydney: the joy of playing cards in particular and of gambling in general...
...time the governess beholds the church, Australian Author Peter Carey's third novel has begun to build to a spectacular finish. But none of the surprises to come are any more outlandish than the trail of circumstances and coincidences that have led up to them. Like the glass structure it celebrates, Oscar and Lucinda seems the stuff of shimmering, transparent fantasy, held together by the struts of 19th century history and the mullions of painstaking detail. The book does not, of course, weigh twelve tons, but it will seem substantial enough to readers unable to put it down...