Word: references
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ZIPPER Invented in 1913 by Swedish immigrant Gideon Sundback at Universal Fastener Co. in Pennsylvania. B.F. Goodrich first used the word to refer to a fastener on a pair of its galoshes; it was not used in clothes until the 1930s. By 1941 zippers beat the pants off buttons in the Battle...
Even though negotiations had started this summer over how Japan would refer to its past, Jiang could not secure a clear-cut written apology for Japan's actions from Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi. Obuchi did verbally express a "heartfelt apology," but the text of the document did not use such wording. Indeed, despite last-minute efforts, the joint statement appeared without signatures, a fact which indicates, at least to foreign policy analysts, that the document's final form was unsatisfactory to the Chinese leader...
...President is only now getting round to completing it. "We are close to the end of this process," said White House press spokesman Joe Lockhart, adding that Clinton would hand in the assignment either Thursday or Friday. Whether he would answer Hyde's questions in full, or merely refer him to answers previously given in the Paula Jones and grand jury depositions -- earning the President a big fat F from committee Republicans ? was still unknown...
...History of Art and Architecture department which Pon taught last year. The class was developed in conjunction with this show. Both the lectures which various students from that tutorial will be giving in the upcoming months and the symposium on "The Materiality of Print in Early Modern Europe" will refer to the apparent parallels between these issues of copying during the Renaissance and contemporary artistic concerns...
Meier proceeded to explain similar spatial dynamics crucial to the living spaces of homes he worked on in New Jersey, Southern California, Texas and Florida. It was interesting to hear an architect whose work is characterized by such bold, white rectilinear forms, reminiscent of hospitals and sanitariums, refer to the persistent influence of nature in his stylistic decisions. It was an unexpected revelation. Meier reminded the audience that a building does not have to fit into the landscape or be camouflaged by it to address the presence and spatial dictates of nature. Frank Lloyd Wright...