Word: erection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...action. That ban had been inspired by the wave of foreign acquisitions of U.S. banks, such as the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp.'s purchase of 41% of New York's Marine Midland. Financiers now are worried that the Crocker deal might push Congress to erect new barriers. Indeed, the General Accounting Office is expected to recommend next month that Congress reinstate the moratorium. That would limit the activities of British banks in the U.S. at a time when the international branches of major American banks are aggressively attacking the United Kingdom market. The British will doubtless argue...
...Veterans National Cemetery Committee and urged the Veterans Administration to enlarge the Grafton cemetery. Instead, the federal agency decided to save money by digging up 627 unknown Civil War dead and reburying them in separate plastic urns in a mass grave. Over this grave, said the VA, it would erect an imposing common headstone with an inscription stressing the theme "Now We Are One." The VA actually opened up eleven graves and found only a few relics inside. Says Albright: "The dead had no uniforms, no identification, no nothing. So what's wrong with a common grave as long...
...backs ache? In part, it is the price that humans pay for insisting on standing erect...
Jays Orthopedist Hugo Keim of Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center: "If you believe in evolution as I do, then you can trace all of our lower back problems to the time when the first hominid stood erect. If you're a creationist, you can look at it this...
Mother was right: stand up straight. Keep the body relaxed but erect, although not in the ramrod West Point style. Throw back the shoulders, keep the abdomen pulled in. As a check, stand with heels, buttocks, shoulders and head pressed firmly against a wall. If you can barely slip your hand between the wall and the small of the back, mother should have no reason to complain...