Word: founds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some of the most attractive handicraft objects are to be found at small stores off the tourist track: lacquered woven bamboo handbags, hand-painted nesting boxes in all shapes, ceramic poudriers that could be used as cigarette boxes, silken parasols, cloisonne bangles. Many of these eyecatching, easily stowed artifacts are sold in the U.S. for ten times the going price in China...
...Liberty is to faction what air is to fire." When he wrote those words, James Madison clearly expected the faction-ridden nation he helped found to go right on producing special-interest groups constantly pressing for advantage. But even the prescient co-author of the Federalist papers might be amazed at the abundant fulfillment of his vision by Americans of the late 1970s. The nation has entered a period of ascendant factionalism, a time when the larger desires of society can scarcely be heard for the insistent clamor of its numberless segments...
Unfortunately - or perhaps fortunately - none of the summary items are to be found elsewhere in the paper. But the issue is groaning with typically insightful international reporting (NOTHING OF GREAT SIGNIFICANCE HAPPENING IN AFRICA OF LATE), trenchant Washington analysis (CARTER FORESTALLS EFFORTS...
...pawn my Cuisinart. If Abe Rosenthal ever found out I was part of this, he'd have me back on the police beat in Amoravia, formerly the Shoovah...
...interior area, once known for producing low-grade grapes that were largely used in cheap jug wines. The company then prepared a $1.5 million ad campaign to introduce the California wines with a splash. The promotions show Taylor's rose, Rhine and burgundy being taste-tested and found superior to similar popularly priced ($1.90 to $2.99 a bottle) wines. Many of the 27 judges in the tests were not professionals but merely wine buffs who are members of the San Francisco Vintners Club, which meets for weekly wine tastings...