Word: shaped
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...objectives clearly." Other experts like Hoffmann feel that the Secretary must not become prisoner of a rigid view to which he tries to make every world event conform. But unless the foreign policy chief can relate events in one part of the world to those in another, and shape a strategy that pursues the same goals in all, he is likely to be trapped in a series of ad hoc, inconsistent responses to breaking crises...
Atlanta's new Georgia Power Co. building, which will be opened early next year, may be the shape of things to come in an era of expensive energy. The south wall of the 24-story edifice looks like an upside-down staircase: each floor overhangs the one below, so that the top of the building sticks out 23 ft. farther than the bottom. This unusual construction helps block out sunlight on steamy summer afternoons, thus reducing the need for air conditioning. But during the winter, when the sun is lower in the southern sky, the warming rays will...
...Skunk Works, "a successor to the U-2 takes shape...
...prehistory to Georgia O'Keeffe. Each consists of a porcelain goblet, porcelain cutlery and a large plate, all reposing on ornamental cloth runners. Most of the plates bear designs based on the female genital organs, though one of them, representing English Composer Ethel Smyth, is in the shape of a grand piano, and another, commemorating the black abolitionist Sojourner Truth, depicts two heads, one weeping and the other angry, drawn in a style that coarsely parodies African tribal art. The triangular ceramic floor beneath the table bears the names of an additional 999 women, resurrected...
Commenting on Gildea's return to the lineup, coach Vicki Hays said, "Considering Maureen has only put together about a week of straight workouts since her knee troubles began, she swam amazingly well. She's in such good shape that I don't think we've lost anything from her absence...