Word: roman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...political experts. Mondale won an overwhelming percentage of blacks, and thinner majorities among Jewish voters, union households and those earning less than $10,000 a year. Period. Reagan took everything else, sweeping every imaginable category of voter: young, middle-aged and elderly; low, middle and high income; Protestant and Roman Catholic; professional and blue collar...
...those polled by NBC said they were more likely to vote Democratic because of her, while 26% said they were less likely; the rest said she made no difference. Among women, 24% said her presence on the ticket made them less likely to vote Democratic, 19% more likely. Roman Catholics chose Reagan by 56% to 44%; in 1980, Reagan took the Catholic vote by only 47% to 43%. Republican strategists believe Ferraro, a Catholic, lost votes by tangling with the Catholic bishops over abortion...
Although studies of ferns began in the time of the Roman Empire, scientists still find the flowerless plant mysterious, and botanists like the Tryons are trying to solve puzzling questions about its highly unusual system of reproduction, its potential applications, and some of its devastating effects all over the globe...
...owner of the land, the J. Paul Getty Trust, plans to live up to that Roman precedent with an enterprise of imperial scope. The trust, which administers the world's richest endowment in the visual arts, will erect a $100 million-plus arts and humanities complex. Scheduled for completion in 1991, the complex is to include a museum, a conservation institute and an academic center for research in art history, the last including housing for scholars. When the project was conceived, it was clear that the architect entrusted with the design would have one of the choicest, most challenging...
...over the place, like pellets sprayed from a shotgun." He is particularly disenchanted with the postmodernist eclecticism that has become fashionable in the past decade. "You cannot evoke the past by simply taking historical symbols and using them as applique," he maintains."What does it mean to put a Roman arch over someone's house in Connecticut? Nothing. Architecture has to do with the totality of the building, not the application of illiterately assembled elements...