Word: fabrics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Arizona Congressman Morris Udall, aleading environmentalist, called it "a delicate fabric of agreements." An Atomic Industrial Forum spokesman acclaimed it "a masterpiece of compromise." Sierra Club Lobbyist Brooks Yeager noted, perhaps more accurately, "There's an awful lot of politics in this bill...
...from Massachusetts. We find this shocking because of what it reveals about the whole social fabric not just the mechanical failures of the automatic tellers, but the breakdown in human relations as well. Who would have thought that a drive to the bank could entail such a risk? Who would have thought one could go through all that due to a temporary lack of 50 cents? God help the people who are short of money all the time. I hope you will print this, so that people will know that there's more than one kind of crime...
...budget deficit from 16.5% of gross domestic product this year to 8.5% in 1983 and 3.5% in 1985. That will involve a painful pruning of personnel from the country's more than 1,000 state and quasi-government organizations, plus a sharp curtailment of Mexico's dense fabric of price subsidies. De la Madrid's announcement that he was lifting price controls on 2,700 items is only the beginning...
...million-member public service sector. In the best of circumstances an austerity program on the scale that De la Madrid must carry out would risk provoking social upheaval. But in Mexico's case there is another danger, the possibility of tearing the country's unique political fabric in such a way as to limit the P.R.I.'s ability to cope with unrest...
...dressed in a toreador outfit of varying shades of gold lame. "That night," he recalls, "the huge cape I designed was completely lined with fresh red roses which I tossed, one by one, at my audience as I descended the grand staircase." Though the glitter of the gold fabric has dimmed a trifle, and Erte has just turned 90, both the costume and the celebrated designer were on hand at the opening of a retrospective at the Dyansen Gallery in Manhattan, one of four major Erté shows currently on view...