Word: felted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Madison was reminded that his literary agent had come down from New York. Though he loathed the power lunch scene at Duke Zwilling's Tavern, Madison felt compelled to put on a good show. Speedy Lorenz had brought along a top editor from Rumpole House to discuss publication of Madison's proposed Essays on Federalism. The protocols of a proper business meal were followed scrupulously: aimless discussion of the New York theater season (all British imports), summer houses (expensive) and the servant problem (dire) until coffee was mercifully served. Only then did the editor, Michael Lordover, come to the point...
...consumers began to get queasy. "You didn't know how much you wanted, you didn't know how much you got, and you didn't know how much you paid for it," sympathizes G.T. Underwood, director of the Commerce Department's Office of Metric Programs. "But you knew you felt pretty bad about the metric system...
...scientific community and educators," recalls Underwood. "Opposed were a great many consumers, who saw it as placing undue stress on them: Why confuse a lot of people just for the sake of having the same system the Europeans use? The labor unions were also generally opposed because they felt it would distress trained workers, and that going metric would allow imported foreign-made goods to become even more acceptable...
...ruins of the Desert de Retz, the designs of dead masters like Andrea Palladio and living architects like Etienne Louis Boullee and Claude Nicolas Ledoux -- would leave their traces in his own designs, but the Maison Carree was decisive for American architecture as a whole. By copying it, Jefferson felt, one could improve the Republic's general taste, "introducing into the State an example of architecture, in the classic style of antiquity." He used it (working from drawings) as the basis of the new Virginia state capitol in Richmond (1785-92). He visited Nimes in 1787 and contemplated its walls...
...means of an electoral college, which critics charge gives an unfair advantage to the ruling party, and introducing direct presidential elections instead. In the end, the consensus of the group was that the electoral question should be resubmitted to the National Assembly. Said Member Kim Yung Chung: "Everybody felt it was high time to do that, before it was too late...