Word: founds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week's end, Maggie Thatcher was still so busy that she had not found time to move her family from their Chelsea house to their new private quarters on the top floor of No. 10. In fact, there wasn't time to bake a cake for Husband Denis on his 64th birthday...
Thus the panelists often found themselves debating a basic political and philosophical issue: Do the economic benefits of large size and efficiency outweigh the political risks of allowing power to be gathered in relatively few hands...
Dutch brewers, led by Heineken, became the top beer exporters in the mid-1970s after the Germans found themselves squeezed out of foreign markets by rising costs and the climbing value of the deutsche mark. Löwenbräu, which once exported a third of its production, stopped shipping to the U.S. last year; a version of the original Löwenbräu is now brewed and marketed in the U.S. by Miller. But over the past three years sales of foreign beers in the U.S. have doubled. Though Heineken now commands close to 45% of this booming...
...next two years will travel to six other U.S. cities. In order to assemble this dazzling show of 345 objects, both public and private collections in Korea were virtually stripped. There are treasures of gold and gold enameling discovered in tombs as recently as 1974, and menacing guardian figures found in the ruins of a Buddhist temple. There are scrolls and paintings, daggers and belt buckles, masks and fans. All the traditional motifs and idioms of East Asian art appear in Korean work-dragons, Buddhas and bamboo trees-but most have been somehow changed, made Korean with an indigenous fluency...
Funeral ornaments dating back to the Old Silla dynasty (5th-6th century A.D.) display a barbaric splendor never before found in East Asia. Discovered amidst a stash of weapons and earthenware, a crown glitters with spangles of gold and jade that adorn its antler-like shafts. This animal symbolism, some historians believe, attests to the shamanistic beliefs of the early Koreans and suggests that they had more in common with the nomadic horsemen of the Siberian steppes than with their Chinese neighbors...