Word: rug
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HIGH ABOVE the plushly furnished office, for the arts and the newly renovated Agassiz Theater. Education for Action, the fifteen-year-old group that funds student social action, occupies two small corner rooms on the fourth floor, decorated with a frayed throw rug and a table with a collection of kitchen chairs that don't match. "We're not going to be embraced within the image "of Radcliffe," says staff-member Suzanne Motherall...
Covered by a rug and preceded by three men holding Palestinian flags, the empty coffin was carried slowly along the main street of the village of Beit Likya in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. "In spirit and blood we sacrifice you," murmured one of the 250 onlookers, as others shouted, "Palestine is Arab!" The ceremony was a mock funeral for Jihad Ibrahim Badr, 16, one of the two Palestinians killed during the Easter morning shooting on Jerusalem's Temple Mount. Both Badr and the other victim, Salah Alyamani, had already been buried in a tiny, fenced-off cemetery underneath...
...Security. But a Republican who has been involved in the negotiations shared the week's optimism. Said he: "Believe it or not, everyone involved seems to be putting the economic stakes above politics for the moment. A lot of us would be surprised if the President jerked the rug out from underneath Jim Baker at this point." Should a compromise fall through, there is little hope of controlling the burgeoning deficits, and the November elections will be dominated by finger-pointing and political posturing over who is to blame for the continued stagnation of the economy...
Only Associate Editor Christopher Byron, who edited the cover, had a good word to say about high rates: "They have turned me from a spender into a saver," he says. "If you can get 14% or even 15% on your money at a bank, why buy an Oriental rug or a Krugerrand...
...worldwide alert of U.S. military forces; the plight of an Egyptian army trapped in the desert and facing starvation; and Kissinger's now renowned "shuttle diplomacy, "which sometimes involved such intense haggling over the most minute details that he was reminded of nothing so much as "retail rug-merchanting...