Word: dram
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chirico's more debatable pseudoclassical work from the '20s -- this is now de rigueur, thanks to its popularity among postmodernists, who see it as a daring and prophetic form of backwardness -- as well as the paintings of his hardly less talented brother, the painter-composer-dram atist who worked under the name of Alberto Savinio and turned the late scheme of metaphysical painting into an even wilder pastiche than it had already become...
...December the Commerce Department initiated a complaint charging that Japanese semiconductor manufacturers were selling products in the U.S. market at prices below the cost of production, a practice known as dumping. That triggered an investigation by the International Trade Commission to determine whether U.S. makers of the 256K DRAM chips commonly used in computers and other electronic equipment had been injured by imports. In a preliminary ruling last week, the ITC found that they had. The Commerce ; Department will now determine whether dumping has occurred. If it has, the department will calculate the dumping margin, which is the difference between...
...walking in a bicycle lane. A year later she said, "We've kicked a few pebbles, we'll turn a few stones, and eventually we'll start an avalanche." In these postavalanche days, MADD is getting just about all the laws it wants. A total of 37 states have "dram shop" laws or legal precedents holding servers of alcohol responsible for the acts of drunks. Happy hours, banned or restricted in 15 states so far, seem to be on the way out everywhere. And all states must raise their minimum drinking age to 21 by 1987 or risk losing federal...
...have a dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear as will disperse itself through all plays that the unbeaten Crusaders may fall dead, and that the Gil Fenerty may be discharged of yards as violently as hasty passes fir'd doth hurry from Peter Muldoon's fatal cannon...
...league asks the sympathy and support of all good citizens of Cambridge who are opposed to the multiplication of dram-shops in this city, and who desire to have our streets cleared of the drinking places which offer such fatal allurements to our young men. The league especially directs the attention of the people to the fact that the issue as presented at the approaching municipal election is one that does not admit evasion or neutrality. Every citizen is called to vote either upon the side of the liquor traffic or against...