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Word: erection (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Guido Carli found that the temptation to erect trade barriers was at the heart of "the major crisis of the European Community, which is a crisis of political leadership." He argued that the debate over the Community's budget, which has virtually paralyzed it for three years, was "irrelevant" when compared with the trade issue. He said that all the member nations are "behaving contrary to the logic of the Community" by reverting to nationalist, mercantilist policies. Carli described the members as divided into two camps: the protectionists and the free traders. The protectionists include France and Britain, while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe's Dour Outlook | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

Those three shocking assaults had an almost theatrically pat iconography: Reagan in a business suit, the very picture of the political order; John Paul in his papal robes of immaculate white; Sadat, the erect warrior, in a field marshal's gold-braided blue uniform. All the victims were over 60; each was attacked by a man in his 20s. Raised in suburban ease, Hinckley had just drifted away, aimless and alone, gorging on fast food in rented rooms and fantasizing a love affair with a teenage movie star. It was to command this dream girl's attention that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Others Who Stood in the Spotlight | 1/4/1982 | See Source »

...unearthed human ancestors more than 3 million years old, as well as to discuss Don Johanson's dramatic discovery of Lucy, the famous four-foot-tall Ethiopian who walked upright at least 3 million years ago. The find, Leakey notes, confirms that man's ancestors walked erect long before they began to develop the big brains that set them apart from more primal primates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Living Fossils | 12/28/1981 | See Source »

...Shape gets her when she's balling this orderly in a therapeutic bath. The guy's killed off-screen as the camera fixes on her naked body, loosely wrapped in a sheet, her firm, ripe breasts erect and eager. She thinks the clammy hands caressing her are her lover's--Poetic Justice!--but the Shape adjusts the bath water to scalding and repeatedly shoves her head in it, holding it out of the water long enough for us to see the flesh peeling off and the red and white blobby pulp beneath. Hot stuff! Then the Shape drills a cute...

Author: By David B. Edelstern, | Title: More Merriment | 11/25/1981 | See Source »

...right to thin the Piceance herd from 346 horses to 166. Along with his wife Shirley, 52, and brother Gil, Crawford has spent hours in the garage perfecting the labyrinthine steel pen. He has spent another two days airborne over Yellow Creek, scouting the precise location to erect it. Crawford chooses a gully at the confluence of three trails near a favorite watering spot. His crew toils for a day under a blistering sun erecting the 10-ft.-high cage, securing it with iron stanchions and braces of lodgepole pine, and camouflaging its sides with sage and chimisa bush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Colorado: Chasing the Mustangs | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

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