Word: layering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like natural skin, the man-made version is composed of two main layers. The innermost, corresponding to the dermis, is a mixture of a protein from cowhide and a complex carbohydrate derived from shark cartilage. When mixed with an acidic solution, the two ingredients become short white fibers. Freeze-dried and vacuum treated to remove moisture, the fibers form a light and highly porous white sheet of material, which is placed in an oven at a high temperature. The topmost layer, equivalent to the epidermis, is made by bonding a viscous plastic onto the cowhide-shark sheet. The completed skin...
...Receipt of first-year grades can lend to the first year a layer of tension and competitiveness intense enough to detract from the educational process," the report states...
...last night of the convention season was nothing less than spectacular. Every lighting lackey and cable layer was invited to swanky Tavern-on-the-Green in New York's Central Park to dance and dine the night away with the top brass. With enough liquor to anesthetize a Russian army and with every kind of food known to man, we all soon got into the spirit. Beefy cameramen jostled the likes of Lesley Stahl at the crepe and caviar table, and pool secretaries chatted with producers...
They are great underground mountains of salt, some of them six miles deep and three miles across. They were formed tens of millions of years ago-some even before the age of the dinosaurs-by the evaporation of ancient saline seas. Layer upon layer of sediment piled atop the dried-up ocean beds. Gradually, columns of the lighter salt were forced upward by the pressure, like putty squeezed through the fingers of a slowly clenching fist. In the U.S. alone, there are more than 500 such salt domes, all of them in or around the Gulf of Mexico...
...anyway, well-publicized-figure who has fallen from grace. Edgy, abrasive, in secure, she is in her own right a fascinating figure of the moment as she fights her way through a state bureaucracy that would prefer she found an other subject. Her Mr. Deeds is a brick layer named Mateusz Birkut (Jerzy Radziwilowicz). Earnest and innocent, he pioneered a faster method of doing his job in the Stalinist '50s. But one man's technological breakthrough is an other's speedup: though the government publicizes him as a Stakhanovite, he is resented by other workers...