Word: maps
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...example of the more practical applications of the tangram. During World War I the popularity of this puzzle provided a manufacturer with a chance to help Allied prisoners escape; Red Cross care packages contained tangram puzzles in wooden boxes, many of which had a hacksaw, a compass, and a map concealed in a false wall...
...state, with its $11 billion budget, resembles a corporation in some ways. "If you took Massachusetts and turned it into a private corporation it would be in the top 10 Fortune 500 companies," Kimball said. Such a large enterprise, she said, "must have a strategic planning office designated to map the future of the state...
Living up to the standards set by Nakasone will be difficult. Newspaper commentators have already compared Takeshita unfavorably with the Prime Minister. The five-year reign of the dynamic, much traveled Nakasone put Japan on the world map -- and the rest of the world on Japan's map. Takeshita's slight international experience is a painful shortcoming. His penchant for the slow process of consensus may also be a dangerous anachronism, the product of an age that Tokyo seems to have outgrown. Says Seizaburo Sato, a political scientist at the University of Tokyo: "If Takeshita had been elected...
...million monument was funded by more than 80,000 donations. Ringed by stone benches and cascading fountains, the plaza depicts a map of the world and its oceans in two-tone, inlaid granite. At one edge stands a bronze statue of a pea-coated sailor, a stark tribute that captures the loneliness of the vast, restless...
Later I dropped by the Sidetrack Tap and fell into another kind of discussion. Wally, the proprietor, was arguing that your books are good for the old home town: "Put us on the map, after all these years," he said. "That's all well and good," Daryl Tollerud replied, "but when they read the map, what are people gonna think?" Daryl had to admit that story you told on him -- about the time he let the skunk into his parents' bedroom -- was pretty funny, but he didn't like you "writing up" what he was doing there, 42 years...