Word: rolled
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...walls there, arranged not by artist or period but by the size of the canvas. Curators were worried, however, that the site's humidity would destroy the paintings. Victor Covey, then the gallery's senior conservator, designed an ingenious lightweight metal container on wheels that one person could roll through the gallery and, within minutes, gather up the 18 or 19 most prized paintings, then slip them into designated slots. Inside the container was a tool chest with devices for removing the paintings from the walls swiftly, as well as flashlights and a waterproof signboard showing the location of each...
...most basic level, the treaty will roll back as many as 20,000 separate tariffs over the next 10 to 15 years. Currently those barriers average nearly 11% in Mexico, around 5% in Canada and less than 4% in the U.S. (though duties on products like cocoa, for example, go as high as 20% in Mexico; in Canada tequila is slapped with a 183% duty). More important will be the steps that NAFTA takes to diminish nontariff barriers, such as dairy and cotton quotas in the U.S. and Canada, and various import licenses in Mexico. By rapidly widening the consumer...
Democrats are forever calling the Republicans the party of the rich. But a new survey by the congressional newspaper Roll Call reports that of 28 SENATE MILLIONAIRES, 21 are Democrats. According to standard financial-disclosure forms, which often yield conservative estimates, Virginia Senator Charles Robb, a Democrat, leads the pack, with a net worth of at least $19 million (thanks mostly to wife Lynda Bird Johnson's family holdings). Among the other wealthiest Democrats: Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island (net worth: $13.7 million), Herb Kohl of Wisconsin ($12.7 million), Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia ($8.7 million), Lloyd Bentsen of Texas...
...have been battling for three years to see who would capture the "world's greatest athlete" laurels in Barcelona, last week met on a rain-soaked track at Azusa Pacific University outside Los Angeles to film a hastily rewritten Reebok shoe ad. As they waited for the cameras to roll, their conversation remained on emotionally safe subjects like new golf clubs. There was no discussion of O'Brien's memorable miss in the pole vault at the U.S. Olympic trials a fortnight earlier, which had unexpectedly eliminated him from the Barcelona competition, or of Johnson's record-setting performance, which...
WHEN IT COMES time for the dramatic roll call of the states, the votes are over-whelming...