Word: webbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past decade Malden has struggled with a web of increasingly tangled financial and social problems and decided to use the Negotiation Project's technique to tackle them all at the same time...
After Pope John Paul II was shot in St. Peter's Square more than three years ago, Turkish Gunman Mehmet Ali Agca spun for Italian investigators a web of contradictions, phony confessions and outright lies. But one of his revelations has continued to gain ground as an explanation of the assassination attempt: Agca was hired to kill the Pope by the Bulgarian secret service and, implicitly, the KGB, the Soviet secret police...
...major participant in the Continental bailout. He argued that the bank's problems proved that still more banking restrictions should be lifted. Said he: "To me, this episode is evidence that we must proceed with deregulation." Isaac blamed the bank's troubles partly on a web of entangling state and federal laws. Continental is unable to open offices to seek consumer deposits outside Chicago, for example, because Illinois statutes prohibit branch banking. That has helped make Charts Continental dependent on large foreign customers, who are apt to withdraw their money at the first sign of trouble...
...Disney folks painstakingly trained the Pekins to accept the costumed canard as the next best thing to Mom. Last week Donald proudly led his faithful followers past squealing crowds of early-morning guests to a giant birthday cake decorated with peas, corn and carrot candles. Unfortunately, the web-footed wonders were too busy quacking up to go for the goodies...
...habit of medieval thought had been to explain the world of animals and plants as images of the virtues, the vices, of God's nature and the events of the Bible. Nature presented itself as a web of moral symbols, and the Pre-Raphaelites tried strenuously to revive this cast of mind. Every detail tells a story and wants to be decoded. It can be quite a tiring business "reading" a full-scale Pre-Raphaelite allegory, like Hunt's The Hireling Shepherd, 1851-52. This sunny, pastoral scene of two rustics flirting was actually a warning against...