Word: buttress
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...father. Eve was the first mother." Two plus two will always equal four, says a math lesson, just as "Thou shalt not kill" will always mean thou shalt not kill. In high school economics, students are taught the need to return to the gold standard-on biblical authority. (To buttress their policy academy economics teachers cite Isaiah 1: 22, "Thy silver has become dross, thy wine mixed with water.") The academy proudly reports measurable results of this curriculum, taught in strict classrooms by teachers who view their work not as a job but as a calling: the five-year-olds...
Control. Along with cool charm, good looks and an obsessive desire to walk in her husband's shadow, control is a buttress of Nancy Reagan's persona...
...program suggests that the brain-death criteria, particularly in Britain, are not strict enough and intimates that a factor may be the need for healthy organs for transplants. To buttress the show's argument, the producers described the experiences of five American patients who were thought dead but who survived. Only one was ever considered as a possible organ donor. Two were women who had taken drug overdoses, one was a premature infant, another was a man paralyzed by a muscle-relaxing agent. The most sensational case was that of a man who lost consciousness after suffering a heart...
...University of Massachusetts' Amherst campus the red brick façade of the 28-story library has turned into a new sort of flying buttress. Since last fall, chunks of brick have come crashing onto the surrounding concrete patio, which is now fenced off to protect passing students. At California's San José State University, badly fitting window frames caused drafts that sent shivering nude models scurrying from the art studio. The 30 models, aged 21 to 52, went on strike, in part because they were tired of posing clad only in "goose flesh." At San Francisco...
...Lebanon was once again broken by sporadic fighting after Syria announced that it would soon reduce its policeman's role in Beirut. At the same time, the Damascus government said that it would move some of its Beirut-based forces into the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon to buttress Syria's own defense lines against a possible Israeli attack. The announcement sent shock waves throughout the Middle East-and nowhere more than in Israel, which nervously worried about renewed Arab-Jewish tensions in the occupied West Bank...