Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Grand Policy. The main purpose of the three-day summit, held in the isolated beach resort of Club des Pins outside Algiers, was to fashion a united policy for the cartel for a grand negotiation with consumer nations, perhaps this summer. Though much of the OPEC rhetoric was as blustery as ever, there were clear indications that the oil producers were ready to bargain with the countries that have been struggling to pay for the fourfold increase in oil prices over the past 1½ years...
Died. Madeleine Vionnet, 98, grande dame of French couture; in Paris. Vionnet, as she was simply known, began her trade as an apprentice seamstress at the age of eleven in 1887, opened her own fashion house in 1912, and flourished till her retirement in 1940. She preferred to drape fabric on a wooden mannequin rather than sketch her designs. Her main innovation was the bias cut, in which cloth is scissored at an angle to the weave, rendering it more elastic and clingy. Her soft, often layered dresses moved with the wearer's body and helped to usher...
...those who knew the subject best--can bring a man back to life. But the exhibit at the Law School does succeed in giving a clear impression of what Holmes must have been like. Each item has been carefully selected, and the show progresses in a thoroughly logical fashion. This exhibit leaves you with a definite feeling for Holmes' depth of character, his awesome accomplishments, and his profound wisdom...
...states and the Federal Government must fashion a coherent national energy program that addresses these problems. We must develop the Outer Continental Shelf in an orderly fashion. Exploration must be separated from leasing and development. It should begin promptly, and it should involve both state and federal governments...
...jargon and gossip, a serious as well as topical undercurrent can be felt. Should animals be killed to feed humans? In the long run, is the consumption of 10 Ibs. of grain to produce 1 Ib. of beef an equitable or sensible ratio? Is the meatless meal a fashion, an ideal or a specter? These were once the narrow concerns of Victorian freethinkers like George Bernard Shaw or of pop nutritionists like Adelle Davis. But suddenly, in many societies, the question of a high-protein vegetable diet has be come literally a matter of life and death...