Word: webbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last year the battle was over automobiles and trucks. Now Japan and the other major industrial countries are heading for an even more serious collision. At issue this time is whether or not Japan's byzantine web of nontariff import barriers is really just disguised protectionism, and, if so, what should be done about...
...parked unattended. Solitary figures sit like dolls behind the wheels to prove there is no bomb. Armored personnel carriers, called "pigs" by the children, poke their snouts around corners and lurch out to create sudden roadblocks. The Andersonstown police station, like a fly draped in a web, is barely visible behind what looks like a baseball backstop. The fence is slanted inward at the top, to fend off any rockets...
Crimson pressman Brian M. Byrne produced the four-color photo, threading a single web of newsprint through all three units of the Goss Community Press in the basement of the paper's 14 Plympton St. building...
...trend toward steady increases in taxes and spending by the Federal Governmment and placed the U.S. on a path designed to lead the economy toward steady long-term growth. Yet, as the TIME economists made clear, the Administration at year's end finds itself increasingly entangled in a web of economic difficulties. Some of these are due to the recession that is now gathering force with alarming swiftness, but many are being caused, in effect, by the Administration's policy miscalculations and sheer wishful thinking. In either case, the result has been to limit Reagan's ability...
...pause to ask whether Giamatti's moral principles do not rest on a disguised litism. Those who question "the discrete purity" to winning may be losers, but as an equally integral part of society's fabric they have an equal right to help in "the weaving of the web of state." Even if they didn't go to Yale...