Word: erection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spirit of what's-sauce-for-the-Christians, some Jews now erect Menorahs, the nine-candle symbols of Chanukah, on public land. This year, for the fourth consecutive time, a giant 30-ft. Menorah was put up by the Hasidic American Friends of Lubavitch in Washington's Lafayette Park, just across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House. Many Jews are not pleased, even though no government funds are involved. Says Attorney Marc Stern of the American Jewish Congress: "It's unconstitutional. Most of the organized Jewish community doesn't like...
...Menorahs do illuminate the central issue involved in the Christmas lawsuits. If government funds were used to erect Menorahs, most American Christians would probably see that as an unconstitutional use of government funds to promote Judaism. The traditional role that Christmas has played in American life has made the point harder to see in the case of crès, but no less valid...
...worldwide recession continues, warning bells are sounding for a fundamental element of the global economic system. Free trade, which has been a locomotive of prosperity since World War II, is in grave danger of derailment. The cause: a tendency by hard-pressed governments to erect trade barriers in attempts to safeguard their ailing industries at the expense of those of other countries. So serious is the problem that former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford issued a rare joint statement calling for a halt in "the drift toward economic anarchy." In his weekly radio address, President Reagan sounded a similar...
...Lives of a Cell and now Chancellor of Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Thomas had been trying to see if various enzymes could alter concentrations of proteins in the blood. One evening, he gave adolescent rabbits intravenous injections of papain. Next morning, he found that the rabbits' normally erect ears had flopped; the papaya enzyme had dissolved the gelatinous protein of their cartilage...
...become a revolutionary." And Abbie Hoffman (presumably on radical Jewish impotence): "Fidel [Castro] sits on the side of a tank rumbling into Havana on New Year's day... The tank stops in the city square. Fidel lets the gun drop to the ground, slaps his thigh and stands erect. He is like a mighty penis coming to life..." Insight into the confused thinking of men such as Rubin and Hoffman is valuable, but the authors do not adequately prove that Rubin's excesses were attributable to religion, merely because he once said as much. Nor do they convince the suspicious...