Word: objects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Steel is once again protesting about imports. Only this time the object of the complaint comes from a different direction. The battered industry, which lost $3.2 billion during 1982, had been feeling somewhat buoyed earlier this year. In October 1982, the Government had persuaded the European Community, one of the heaviest shippers of steel to the U.S., to hold back exports for a while. The other big exporter, Japan, had been voluntarily restricting sales. The results were dramatic. In the first nine months of this year, Japan reduced shipments to the U.S. by 35% compared with the same period last...
...what are we to think about the great Cabbage Patch Kids madness of 1983? What are we to think of a homely, vinyl-faced cloth doll that has become such an object of desire to so many people that 5,000 of them staged a near riot last week at Hills Department Store in Charleston, W. Va.? Manager Scott Belcher could provide no explanation. He could only describe a Christmas crowd becoming a Christmas mob: "They knocked over the display table. People were grabbing at each other, pushing and shoving. It got ugly...
...college may object to the fraternities because of the damage done to the buildings, which the college owns, Moodey said. Two fraternities were put on probation last year because of damage, and one, Delta Upsilon, was closed two years...
Sitting in front of a table which displayed almost every common method of contraception, the counselors explain the use, effectiveness and possible side effects of each As they describe each object, including a plastic replica of the female genital affectionately dubbed "Patty Pelvis," they pass them around...
...temporary home is not a zoo but a breeding station in the Wolong (Resting Dragon) Nature Reserve, in the thickly forested mountains of China's Sichuan province. The reserve is the center of an unusual collaborative effort of Chinese and Western scientists, mostly American. Their object: to ensure the survival of Jia Jia and the thousand or so other giant pandas still found in the wild...