Word: fabricators
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...campus filled nearly to capacity with activities and ideas, it seems only appropriate that our sidewalks should be clogged with decadent decorations advertising those wares. It would be exciting to see an opinion war fought in chalk, and it would be inspiring to see the fabric of Harvard life spread itself out across the ground. It’s senseless to choke the channel of communication for the entire Yard to a few square feet of approved poster space. We live in a country inspired by ideas that were shared on public greens and commons. Harvard Yard ought...
...election is certain to speed Thatcher's efforts to reshape the political, economic and social fabric of Britain according to her firmly conservative views. Indeed, the votes had barely been counted last week when she announced a shake-up of her Cabinet. Ousted from his post as Foreign Secretary was Francis Pym, who had differed with Thatcher on a number of issues. His replacement is Sir Geoffrey Howe, who as Thatcher's Chancellor of the Exchequer proved himself a trusted instrument of her economic policies. Howe's successor at Treasury is Nigel Lawson, formerly Secretary of Energy and another loyal...
That this writers’ strike was irritatingly inconvenient for those of us not striking (who wanted to watch Lost, darn it!) only illustrates that screenwriters form some important thread in the fabric of American society. But, hopefully, this strike will serve as a reminder of the importance of communication between different branches of industry, for when traditional avenues of communication between labor and management break down, labor has a right (some might even say a responsibility) to pursue its ends through new means. In the words of Leslie Moonves, chief executive of CBS, “The lesson...
...slave drivers could feed the army of conscripted miners they deployed to dig up the silver. As John Reader recounts in Propitious Esculent: The Potato in World History, the flood of bullion proved more than the Old World could absorb. The unintended result: inflation that shredded Europe's social fabric, disrupted its monetary system and debased the precious metal itself. Blame it on the potato...
...design aims to transform the Shanghai Bund into a more accessible space to “reconnect the city fabric with the waterfront,” said project director Liang Zhao...