Word: stacking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work of Takefumi Aida, 50, is reminiscent of a particular kind of American postmodernism: the playful houses of California's Charles Moore, architecture as fun. Each of Aida's houses appears to be a sprawling stack of a child's multicolored building blocks in Brobdingnag -- simple rectangles, cylinders, triangles and crescents...
...huge outpouring of tens of thousands of favorable telegrams from people across the country provided the first tangible evidence that North had a following. North's wife sat quietly throughout the hearings, clutching a large stack of the yellow telegrams, occasionally thumbing through them to read words of encouragement as congressman questioned her husband's actions. North waved the signs of support at reporters during post-hearing press-conferences. His only words to the press were his appreciation that so many of his fellow Americans had taken the trouble to call-in the messages which read, "Go Ollie. Stop...
Thornburgh governed his state through one ofits toughest economic periods in history. Hard hitby economic recession and the decline of itssmoke-stack industries in coal and steel,Pennsylvania's unemployment rate reached seventhhighest in the nation when he took office. Byencouraging national economic trends towardservice-oriented and high technology businessesand creating job retraining programs, Thornburghis credited by his followers with creating morethan 500,000 new jobs and reducing unemployment tothe point where Pennsylvania was at the nationalaverage. His voters seemed to approve as theyreturned him to office by more than 100,000 votesin...
WASHINGTON--Fawn Hall, Oliver North's former White House secretary, told congressional committees yesterday that she helped him shred a foot-and-a-half stack of documents as the Iran-Contra affair began unraveling last fall, then walked out of the White House with other papers hidden in her clothing...
...author sits at a rough wooden trestle table in his country house near Moscow, thumbing through a stack of page proofs for his novel. "This book is ^ about power," he says. "Stalin was consciously aware of the uses of power, the abuses of power, how to get power and how to keep power. He could have debated with Machiavelli because he would have considered that Machiavelli knew less about power than...