Word: varnished
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...isocyanate (MIC) helps produce Union Carbide's Temik, a product marketed under Robert Gordon Haines, the company's manager for new pesticides. It is one of a group of chemicals called isocyanates that are used to make polyurethane, which, in turn, is used to make paint and varnish. The MIC compound also has been made in the U.S. at Union Carbide's plant in Institute, W. Va., as well as by other companies in West Germany, Japan and South Korea...
...philosophy," declares Christopher Hogwood, director of England's Academy of Ancient Music, "is precisely the same as the one that leads museums to clean 18th century paintings and put them in the right frames. We like to see our pictures of music clean-without layers of 19th century varnish...
...master also expressed reservations about the changes, citing splattered paint and unattractive varnish as two examples of disappointing repairs...
Before Ben Cooper 84 even opened his mouth, some in the crowd were hissing Alter two dozen speakers from what might loosely be described as the campus left, here was member of the Conservative Club and everyone was sure the night unanimity was about to varnish, a no-hitter ruined with two out in the ninth. But Cooper told the Advisors Committee on Shareholder Responsibility that his organization thought if wrong for Harvard to invest in banks lending to South Africa Before he sat down, however, he advanced another argument that it was hypocritical of those assembled to talk only...
AFTER LENDING Ronald Reagan's presidency an unusually long immunity from criticism, the media has recently begun to strip its coverage of the varnish that had shielded the President for more than a year. His sputtering economic policies, increasingly apparent insensitivity on civil rights, and vacillating foreign policy-largely shot from the hip-have even made Reagan's admirers begin to reel in disbelief and exasperation. That the press had treated the President with kid gloves, while fully aware of the White House's blunders incoherence, and incompetence now seems a particularly irresponsible error. But at least journalists are finally...