Word: quilt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...although member states dismantled intra-Community tariff barriers, they retained a bewildering barrage of regulations to restrict trade and curb competition. Although Western Europe has no immediate plans to create a common currency, E.C. countries have already made significant progress toward their goal of unstitching the area's patchwork quilt of protected national markets...
...department, and her staff of nine. Reader reaction ranges from the whimsical (a man from Fairport, N.Y., responded to a story on how disposable packaging contributes to air pollution by writing directly on a McDonald's container) to the intensely curious (a subscriber asked about the origin of a quilt that appeared in a photograph of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's tent). Readers have even asked us to track down people in TIME pictures who resemble long- lost college roommates (the resemblance is almost always just that). After we reported on the 100th birthday of Esperanto, readers tested our knowledge...
...quilt--to stay cozy and warm...
What began as a modest remembrance of a few who succumbed to AIDS has become one of the nation's most moving memorials. This weekend in Washington, a quilt the size of nearly eight football fields and weighing 16 tons will be unfurled on the Ellipse near the White House. A four-month-long, 20-city tour by the San Francisco-based NAMES Project, which thought up the idea, has swelled the number of the quilt's 3-ft. by 6-ft. panels from 2,000 to 8,288. Each panel, produced by friends and relatives, commemorates a single life...
...years of active life, from 1947 to 1986, Folkways Records was a crazy quilt of Americana, a general store with a deep inventory of oddity, inspiration and wonder. The records sounded as if they had been made out in a field, as indeed they sometimes were. All done up in a sturdy cardboard sleeve, they even felt different. But in the midst of all this homespun, Folkways achieved what other companies bring off by accident: it got history on record...