Word: armed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million restoration, a lady needs a face-lifting. Well, maybe it was too much to expect the refurbished copper statue to shine like a newly minted penny at its rededication on July 4. Even so, why have parts of the statue's left cheek, left neck and torch arm developed what the New York Daily News last week delicately dubbed a skin problem? The dark spots, it turns out, are acid stains, caused by pollutants that began eating away at the statue's protective patina in the 1960s and cannot be removed without endangering the delicate copper sheath. But then...
...past ten years, the Catholic Church "has engaged in a systematic effort to support or oppose candidates according to their position on the abortion question, and the IRS has done nothing to enforce the tax code against the Catholic Church," charges ARM Lawyer Marshall Beil. Among the transgressions cited by ARM: a 1980 letter read from 410 pulpits in Boston implicitly urging congregations not to elect Barney Frank a Congressman; a 1980 editorial in a Catholic newspaper in San Antonio (headline: TO THE IRS --NUTS!!!) that praised Ronald Reagan for his antiabortion stand; and John Cardinal O'Connor's public...
...robot with unsuspected autodidactic capabilities escapes the arm of the military-industrial complex that created him, suspensefully eludes the small army sent out to capture him and, along the way, turns himself into a philosopher of the liberal-humanist persuasion. If the irony that a cute thinking machine might be able to teach real people something about moral philosophy appeals to you, then you may like Short Circuit. If, on the other hand, your taste in robots runs toward the apolitical comedy of Artoo Detoo, then Director John Badham's efficient realization of a script by S.S. Wilson and Brent...
...concert, called SUN-FEST--an acronym for Students United for the Needy--was planned by the Student Productions Association (SPA), an arm of the Undergraduate Council whose purpose is to organize campuswide social events. The concert was intended to draw students from throughout the Boston area...
...Deputy Chief of Staff Michael K. Deaver is running into flak with his own. Now a Washington lobbyist, Deaver is under investigation for trading on Government contacts built up as an Administration insider. Last week he got a boost from the President, who swore that Deaver "never put the arm...