Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sign on a refrigerator display case announces the Harvard Square convenience store's bewildering soda price schedule a three-later bottle of soda costs $2.19, a two-later bottle goes for $1.09, while a one-liter bottle...
When the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a pair of eagerly awaited rulings last week, the results--two 4-4 deadlocks--were disappointing for all concerned. In one, the village of Scarsdale, N.Y., was appealing a lower federal court ruling that invalidated the town's ban on the display of a creche in a public park. In the other case, a federal court had thrown out an Oklahoma law that authorized the dismissal of public school teachers who advocate homosexual activity. The tie votes mean that the lower-court rulings stand, but the high bench's action has no value...
Discovery of the finely wrought objects was kept under wraps, awaiting the beginning of the 20th anniversary celebration of Jerusalem's Israel Museum, which last week placed them on display. They include the oldest cloth fragments and painted mask ever found: a life-size limestone human face decorated with bands of red and green. Also dug from the cave: basket and box fragments made of woven rushes waterproofed with asphalt, delicate thumbnail- size human heads and a rodent figurine, carved wood and bone tools, clay, stone and wooden beads and a human skull adorned with asphalt. Perhaps most remarkable...
Concerned that their Neolithic treasures would quickly disintegrate if exposed to humidity and sunlight, museum officials placed them in a darkened room, under glass and resting on a bed of blue and white silica gel that absorbs moisture. To view the objects, visitors press a button, which turns on display lights (filtered to block any destructive ultraviolet light) for only 90 seconds...
...museum officially reopened to the public but lacked sufficient funds to display its exhibits. As a result, the University closed the public galleries and rented most of the building's space to the Center for International Affairs. Despite financial neglect by the University, the museum continued to function on a research center for Semitic studies and its collections swelled with newfound materials from excavations in the Middle East...