Search Details

Word: orderers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

CONGRATULATIONS--and a breath of relief--are in order for Corazon Aquino and the people of the Philippines. While the results of the February 2 plebiscite have not yet been completely tallied, it appears that Aquino has been granted an overwhelming mandate for the continuation of her presidency. Over three-quarters of the voters supported her draft constitution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Philippines | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

...Cambridge City Council recently decided not to put a stop light or a stop sign at the crosswalk across Mass Ave in front of Johnston Gate. Instead, the council issued an order to put a sign telling motorists to yield to pedestrians at the crosswalk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Reporter's Notebook | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

...dedicated men who gathered in Philadelphia in the spring and summer of 1787 could hardly have imagined that their handiwork would one day be feted in such fashion. "We the people of the United States," they wrote after much heated debate, "in order to form a more perfect union . . . and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and to our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pursuit Of Tackiness | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

...what our Government can do for Americans in a chaotic situation such as that in Lebanon." The State Department barred U.S. citizens from traveling to Lebanon and said it would revoke U.S. passports of Americans living there. However, most of the 1,500 residents who are affected by the order also have citizenship in other countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: A Deepening Sense of Frustration | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

...these are not garments for real life. Couture means made-to-order apparel, requiring several fittings and carrying astronomical price tags. Dresses for daytime run about $2,500 and for evening can cost as much as $33,500. Couture must have an extreme element. Or, as Lacroix puts it, "I am very sure that haute couture should be fun, foolish, almost unwearable. We are like a beautiful Christmas window in a store. We have to make dreams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Welcome to The Fresh Follies | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

Previous | 357 | 358 | 359 | 360 | 361 | 362 | 363 | 364 | 365 | 366 | 367 | 368 | 369 | 370 | 371 | 372 | 373 | 374 | 375 | 376 | 377 | Next