Word: tanks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meantime, Bork's personal life had brightened. After a period of loneliness in Washington, he met and soon married Mary Ellen Pohl, a former Sacred Heart nun working for a conservative think tank. "He was raised a Protestant, married a Jew and then a Catholic," notes Ward Bowman, a former Yale law professor. "It's pretty hard to say he's bigoted." Not a member of a church, Bork describes himself as a "generic Protestant...
...bricks are also getting a beauty treatment. Workers use a cutting and pointing process to cut out existing defective stone joints and replace them with new mortar, said Walter H. Packard, president of Chapman Waterproofing, which is in charge of the masonry work. Then workers use koppers bitumastic tank solution, a pitch compound, to repaint the bricks and restore their original appearance...
Economic experts in other countries, notably Canada and Britain, wryly point out that they have faced similar and even proportionately larger tides of foreign investment without losing control of their national destiny. Says Economist Alan Rugman of the C.D. Howe Institute, a leading Canadian think tank: "We in Canada have much more foreign ownership than the U.S. will ever have, and we're one of the wealthiest countries in the world as a result." Even so, Canada has suffered through prolonged bouts of unhappiness concerning foreign influence within its $379.3 billion economy and has occasionally lashed back at foreign investors...
...therapy, the inspiration for a thousand adult-education courses (with the emphasis often on adult), the Esalen Institute, perched on the windswept cliffs of Big Sur, Calif., along one of the loveliest stretches of unreal estate in the world, has long been the Platonic model of an Aquarian think tank. From Buenos Aires to Berlin, it has also become a symbol for the beauty, and something of the folly, of the peculiarly American belief that perfection is just a day away...
...with the man in the mirror/ I'm asking him to change his ways . . ./ If you wanna make the world a better place/ Take a look at yourself, and then make a change") but the Captain EO of theme-park fantasies or the peekaboo celebrity, recumbent in his isolation tank or cornered by paparazzi flashes, wearing his Elephant Man surgical mask and upping his bid for the remains of John Merrick...