Word: foils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Finance and Economics Minister Michel Debre. "Any device for the creation of additional reserves would, by definition, immediately provide countries currently in deficit with the means to postpone, against their own best interests, recourse to the classical process of adjustment." In other words, a new reserve would foil France's plan to make the U.S.-and others-settle accounts in gold...
...contours as well. Britain's Eduardo Paolozzi used eleven colors for Wittgenstein in New York, incorporated such city elements as jets, skyscrapers, and the man from a Bufferin ad to tick off hectic modern life. Roy Lichtenstein printed his Moonscape on metallic plastic that shimmers like aluminum foil. Claes Oldenburg made a serigraph print and attached a rust-colored felt...
Doctors have long been warned to go easy on antibiotics and sulfa drugs. When used with routine frequency, such germ killers may defeat their own purpose by leading to ever more resistant germs. Now comes worse news: the appearance of drug-resistant bacteria that can foil several antibiotics at once. The disturbing explanation is that certain germs "catch" this power of resistance simply by contact with one another. As a result, some infections of the intestinal and genitourinary tracts are becoming tougher than ever to treat...
...poor and a $10 million Teachers Corps project for impoverished neighborhoods. During a seven-hour, bitterly partisan debate, the Republicans tried to strike out the rent-subsidy funds. But the Democratic leadership had done its work well. The attempt failed narrowly, 198 to 190, with six Republicans helping to foil it. Later the entire bill passed by a comfortable 269-to-122 margin...
...ready to bloom in individual paperboard containers, geraniums can be bought in plastic bedding boxes that look like oversized ice trays. Both the plant and its cube-shaped root cluster can simply be pulled out of the pots, plopped into the ground. Rose bushes arrive in brand-new aluminum foil containers with plastic bottoms; the backyard gardener simply snaps off the plastic bottom, lowers the container into the ground without ever soiling his hands. Because rose roots grow straight down, to all practical purposes, the foil foils them...