Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Economy & Business section, reported an August 1979 cover story on the then new theory of supply-side economics and wrote a cover story last year entitled: "Is Capitalism Working?" While Taber welcomes the new public awareness that has made "gross national product" and "prime interest rate" the stuff of dinner table conversations, he cautions that the most important lesson amateur economists can learn is patience. "There will be months of austerity before Americans see any improvement in their own economic world," Taber says. "George Shultz, Ronald Reagan's sometime adviser, summed...
...Consumer Reports, the 1.4 billion gal. a day of H2O that gush through the city's faucets are fresher, clearer and "more stimulating" than all 37 varieties of commercial bottled water tested. For those who insist on decanting their liquids, Macy's is even selling the stuff with a spritz of carbonation under the gold label: CELEBRATED NEW YORK WATER -THE DRINK OF MILLIONS. The price...
...OFTEN, the social and economic irrationalities that can turn us towards racism or xenophobia go unchallenged. But a few times in our nation's history, the challenge of selfishness and parochialism has been met, and those times are the stuff of the American dream...
...that would for the first time use solid rockets to boost men into space. Said NASA Official James Kukowski: "It's going to be a visual spectacular, more spectacular than usual. When Columbia goes up, it won't be just flames and steam as it is for the Saturn stuff. There will be huge streamers of fire and dark, billowing clouds of smoke." And, quite likely, a good deal of hoping and praying. And not a little of that anticipatory mood that was expressed last week by Congressman Don Fuqua, chairman of the House Science and Technology Committee. Said...
...Nevelson did not want to make her totems from steel-"it was too mechanical for me"-and so she resorted to wood, the stuff of her childhood in Maine. She began collecting stray bits and pieces from the street, from junkyards, from antique shops: scroll-sawed offcuts, bits of molding, battered planks and ribs of crates, balusters, toilet seats, sheets of split veneer, gun-stocks, dowels, finials, anything that seemed to have some character. The amassing of these things was an act of love and salvage. "I feel that what people call by the word scavenger is really a resurrection...