Word: mold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Liberals Brennan or Marshall or sometime Liberals Blackmun or John Paul Stevens, seemingly in his prime at 64. During the 1984 campaign, both sides noted that the winner probably would join a short list of very fortunate Presidents--Washington, Jackson, Lincoln, Taft and Franklin Roosevelt--whom fate allowed to mold the court in their own images. For that reason, says Tribe, normally a critic of the Burger era, "I'm for mandatory life-support systems for the current court." But no such emergency intervention is necessary for the moment. The present high bench, with its fragile coalitions and its elderly...
...have broken away from the mold I am obtaining an education to take me places other than hockey although hockey's done a good...
...bankers often do not fit the button-down mold traditionally associated with high finance. Says Donald Waite, a director of the management consulting firm of McKinsey & Co.: "Bankers are no longer bankers. They are a whole lot of different things, and above all they are managers who can handle a group of disparate enterprises." At Citicorp, for example, Jesse Fink, 27, who studied forestry before receiving his M.B.A., heads the company's direct-mail program. Says he: "This organization is not very age conscious. You can get a lot of responsibility quickly." Says Vice President Jennie Schreder...
...after we had the slow start, we played well, so I think we're finally out of that mold...
...fondness for nature run riot. Vases were a specialty. The free-form circumferences, blobby and bulbous like doodles by Arp or Mird, suggest lakes or amoebas or arboreal cross sections. Even the casting process | was ripped from nature. On display at the MOMA show is a wooden mold used to make Aalto's 1936 Savoy vase: the length of dugout tree trunk is equipment that a Hobbit industrialist would use. But Aalto was no whole-earth nostalgist. His 1947 snack tray, molded of thick white plastic with troughs for food, is sci-fi urban, and surely the most formal...