Word: shaped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These changes are coming, but no one predicts confidently what -- if any -- the long range consequences for the City will be. In fact, no one is even sure of the precise shape the changes will take. The Inner Belt, for example, has been in discussion for nearly two decades. The relocation problem it will create is staggering; many think it is insoluble. Yet because it was politically dangerous to imply an acceptance that the highway was coming, a start on relocation is only now being made...
When a drive begins to take shape in a development office, it is Pusey who must persuade an alumni leader to become the general chairman, find members for the executive committee, and spend some time with them so that they know the University is interested...
...must be regarded as an accessory to the production. Miss Garson told a Newsweek reporter, 'I was unhappy when I couldn't find a corresponding scene (in Shakespeare)--then I had to write the scene myself. I'm glad I used Shakespeare; it allowed me, an inexperienced playwright, to shape things in the play." Macbeth, Hamlet and Julius Casear provide matrices for most of MacBird's episodes, and supply the better part of the linguistic embroidery. Miss Garson also draws on Othello for bits of martial brouhaha and on Richard II for the pervasive vegetable metaphor that crops...
...four American families carry automobile insurance, and frustration over accident claims is only one of their woes. There are also protests against big premium increases, abrupt policy cancellations and lax state regulation of fly-by-night companies. The $9 billion-a-year auto insurance business is in such parlous shape that James J. Meyers, vice president for claims of the Crum & Forster insurance group, says the whole works may well become "a dying industry unless we reappraise our practices...
Hamlet: Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel...