Word: fabric
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DESCRIPTION: Shows exports from Newly Industrialized Countries 1980-1986: color illustrations show tape deck, boot, bolt of fabric...
...compact van, stocked with thousands of solutions, will arrive at your door. A driver- decorator (98% are women) will survey the immediate problems and analyze whether your inclinations are in the formal, casual, transitional or luxurious mode. Then, presto! Out from the van can come decks of fabric swatches, wheels of paint chips, pages of wall coverings, rows of baked tiles, furniture catalogs -- even lamps and statuary. For customers who like things fancy, there are silk screens, antique engravings, custom-framed landscapes and Old Master reproductions -- a Degas for the master suite, perhaps, or a Bruegel...
Students differ on how thoroughly homosexuality is integrated into the Yale social scene, but agree that it is relatively easy to be openly gay at the New Haven school. On a recent weekend, as rain soaked the Gothic campus, many students discussed their experiences within the social fabric of Yale...
...influx of Harvard-trained government professionals to the nation's capital is beginning to alter the time-honored fabric of Congressional networking. For example, law was considered a quick and prestigious route to a career in government once, but the Kennedy School in 1968 introduced a new academic route for those interested in public sector careers...
...Bork's support for Brown is official (albeit, as Ronald Dworkin demonstrated in the New York Review of Books, wholly inconsistent with his judicial philosophy). He no longer sees the Civil Rights Acts as undermining the fabric of freedom in America, as he did in a 1963 article in The New Republic...