Word: cloth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guests who gathered last week on the roof of the garage at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles were treated to a strange sight. As a chorus line of cheerleaders kicked and a bevy of multicolored balloons rose in the sky, a huge cloth dropped to reveal a two-story model of a camera. Polaroid was pulling out all the f-stops to introduce the Spectra, a new instant camera that will sell for a steep...
...have left the islands for jobs inland. Tourism and rampant drug smuggling along the coast have transformed the Kuna's former open welcome of Americans into the almost xenophobic suspicion with which they have always regarded Latinos. The number of day trippers, drawn by the Kuna's renowned cloth art, the mola, has multiplied...
...track of, for various health-related studies. But they caution against applying the results too specifically to the general population. The alumni group, for example, includes no women and is primarily white. Further, in terms of intelligence and affluence, "the bulk of these men are cut from the same cloth," says Paffenbarger. "In general, they live longer than the average Caucasian American of comparable age." On the other hand, somewhat surprisingly, the rate of suicide among the Harvard graduates was 50% higher than that of the overall population...
Reagan announced that U.S. funds for training and scholarship programs for the Caribbean will be increased threefold. In addition, he said a new program is being initiated to guarantee access to the U.S. market for Caribbean-produced clothing made from cloth woven and cut in the United States...
...started the school's first opera club and idolized the New York Yankees, was planning to begin studies for the priesthood in the fall. But that summer he changed his mind and decided instead to go to Manhattan College. Although he chose not to become a man of the cloth, Giuliani found his particular calling anyway. After college he entered New York University law school, and it was there, as his old friend Father Palca puts it, that "he was converted...