Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...similar fashion, James Rouse's Enterprise Foundation is providing funding to almost 70 nonprofit housing groups around the country. Rouse, known nationally for his role in revitalizing downtown Boston and the Baltimore Harbor, envisions a national network of neighborhood housing initiatives supported by entities like Enterprise but also backed by federal funding. "The initiative would come from us, but the Government would make available the funds that are so desperately needed," says Rouse. Groups like Enterprise particularly want Congress to approve a $150 million second- mortgage fund similar to the one used in the Nehemiah program...
...maneuvers. In a little rubber dinghy that moved, Stan said, "like a burnt-assed bunny," they conquered islands. "We take a new island, it falls, and Thelma goes in, in steel helmet and full pack" is the way Stan described it. The act wore thin, apparently, for in that fashion Stan and Thelma Don't Get Around Much Anymore...
...dedicated men who gathered in Philadelphia in the spring and summer of 1787 could hardly have imagined that their handiwork would one day be feted in such fashion. "We the people of the United States," they wrote after much heated debate, "in order to form a more perfect union . . . and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and to our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America...
Christian Lacroix conquers the Paris fashion world with bustles, ruffles and flaring taffeta. But how on earth does a woman sit down...
...Lacroix is the new superstar of fashion, the darling of last week's Paris couture shows, extolled by the press and praised by competitors. Karl Lagerfeld of Chanel calls him a "breath of fresh air." Giorgio Armani, whose severe, classic designs are the antithesis of Lacroix's, wishes him luck. "Welcome," he enthuses, "to Lacroix with his fresh follies...