Word: shapes
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...with an inefficiency that can no longer be tolerated. The entire U.N. system spends about $10.5 billion a year. That's not a lot of money, considering the U.N.'s mission (it's about one-third of New York City's budget). Even so, if the U.N. doesn't shape up in a hurry, it risks having its funds cut off by budget slashers in the U.S. and other nations. Right now the U.S. owes the U.N. $1.4 billion in back dues, but many Congressmen object to paying up. Reform would take away one of their strongest arguments, and President...
...fits and starts by which most artists develop. By degrees, in 1911-12, the interweaving of Mondrian's fruit trees ceases to look like energetic lacework on a plain ground; the space between the branches is energized--it presses forward, no longer a void but a continuum of shape as active as the branches themselves...
...went to Cuba, Russia, India, Vietnam and Hong Kong before heading home. During a period when isolationism is rising in the U.S., we wanted this Newstour to emphasize Time's commitment to international news and the connections between the U.S. and the complex forces outside its borders that will shape the 21st century...
left lipstick imprints the shape of grateful rub bery...
Maddox, who is just beginning to collect signatures, said that ballot questions provide ordinary citizens the opportunity to shape policy in the state...