Word: handiwork
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...Ronald Reagan is King of the Beltway now," counters Congressional Scholar Norman Ornstein. Reagan cannot run away from four years of his own handiwork. And Ornstein insists that members of Congress are very much in tune with their own districts and states since they live and die on that political ground...
Peering through the vines and branches that enshroud the ruins, the Colorado team was awed by the handiwork of the ancient craftsmen. Slate-roofed towers jut from the mountainside, the possible burial sites of the elite. Below them are 16 round multistoried buildings constructed of slate, wood and mudlike mortar; many of the structures are decorated with stone carvings of birds, animals, geometric designs and human stick figures capped by feather headdresses. Colorful paint survives on some walls, and large swatches of fabric were found scattered among the burial sites. Terraced fields sculpted into the slope indicate sophisticated agricultural techniques...
...architects to design china, crystal and silverware for the $4 billion-a-year "tabletop" market. The resulting collection of some 50 pieces was unveiled earlier this fall at Marshall Field's in Chicago; two of the architects, Richard Meier and Stanley Tigerman, attended to show off their handiwork. (The others displaying works: Charles Gwathmey, Robert Siegel, Laurinda Spear, Robert A.M. Stern, Robert Venturi, Japan's Arata Isozaki.) The designs are already a commercial as well as aesthetic success. At Field's the china is moving briskly, and some of the silverware sold out within four days. Major...
Lasch's argument is undoubtedly attractive. Especially promising is his analysis of the ways in which therapy obscures questions of economic justice. However, Lasch supports his argument more with literary, intellectual, and emotional evidence than with material suggestive of social reality; his book seems more the handiwork of an individual mind than a vital analysis of the way people live. In the question of therapy and justice, for instance. Lasch is limited to a citation or two from business school texts on how psychology can be used to manipulate employees; he suggest and asserts rather than develops his case...
...control the seasonal flooding that spilled over the river's banks onto 60,000 surrounding acres, destroying property and jeopardizing tourism. Now, in the first rejection of a corps' project ever, the South Florida Water Management District could spend up to $65 million to undo the Army handiwork and return the channel more or less to its original course...