Word: fairings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Joseph S. Nye, Dillon Professor of International Affairs, called the report "pretty fair," saying those calling for harsher judgement would have "missed the point...
...Orwellian setting as "somewhere on the Los Angeles-Belfast border." The film's hero, Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce), shambles efficiently through his job at the Ministry of Information records department but lives for his dreams, in which he is girded like Lochinvar, aloft like Icarus, fighting to save a fair heroine from giant samurai and evil, baby-faced thugs. One day he meets Jill Layton (Kim Griest), a truck driver who lived in the flat above the late Mr. Buttle's and looks exactly like Sam's dream girl. To be near her he accepts promotions in the bureaucracy...
...Executive Order, as are the leaders of both parties in Congress. In the Senate, 67 members have urged the President to retain the current Executive Order. The system of goals has support not only among civil rights organizations but also from many U.S. businessmen, who find it a fair and flexible solution. Says Ralph G. Neas, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights: "We've got the strongest consensus on this that we've ever had on a civil rights issue...
...mansion for $150,000, the mortgage, as well as a Small Business Administration loan, going in Elizabeth's name. Explaining the absence of her husband's name from the documents, Elizabeth says, "When women decide to do something, make a career, it ought to, well, it ought to be fair." For Michael's part, he was going to devote a year to getting Elizabeth's restaurant on its feet on the ground floor and getting their living quarters organized on the second floor...
...three decades, a kind of time-traveling giddiness suffused design; the leading and trailing edges were marked by the 1939 and 1964 New York world's fairs. The '39 fair was the work of the country's first and last great generation of designer-promoters. The son et lumiere theatrics were unabashed. Raymond Loewy designed an exhibit called "Rocketport of the Future," and Norman Bel Geddes' "Futurama," the most popular exhibit, was a scale model of a perfect, antiseptic cityscape. "Strange? Fantastic? Unbelievable?" asked the Futurama narrator. "Remember--this is the world...