Word: erection
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...continue to be a burden, heavy even for the industrial states and crushing for the many poor countries that do not possess oil. He fears that attempts by each nation to cure its own deficit could lead to "a mushrooming of new barriers to trade" that oil importers would erect, not against OPEC but against each other. In his coldly realistic report, Levy predicts it will take at least three or four more years than the banks anticipate-or roughly until 1983-84-before the problem begins to diminish. Meanwhile, his latest analysis suggests...
...important because it exposed the entire political nature of the process" of trying to erect the power plant, Grady said...
...PLAIN, solid-thinking, no-nonsense Swiss engineer visits a drab, small-town cafe to make a speech in his campaign for the Swiss parliament. He stands erect at the podium with all of his bourgeois respectability, smoothly articulating his planned platitudes to a carefully selected, receptive audience. Midway through his speech the moderator calls for a break so that the listeners can refresh themselves with mugs of beer--on the house, of course. From behind the counter emerges a waitress carrying a tray of refreshments, and a striking entrance it is: tall and slender, with long black hair and deep...
...result was a conversion whose rapidity made St. Paul's fall from horseback on the road to Damascus look positively sluggish. Suddenly the issue was how to make sculpture that carried no association whatever with the human figure (which even David Smith's erect steel totems habitually do): "I wanted to make sculpture that was real, not metaphoric. I didn't want to make models of people." The pedestal, Caro argued to himself, puts a frame round the meaning of any sculpture. "A base says, 'This is the limit of the sculpture's world...
...ability to govern and frightened by the country's runaway inflation, U.S. multinational corporations have never been willing to risk large amounts of capital in Viet Nam-even though the Saigon government set up the Industrial Development Bank to solicit foreign investment and announced grandiose plans to erect industrial parks, hotels with convention centers and even a Vietnamese Disneyland...