Word: auge
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...states to set a minimum drinking age of 21. But amid all the frenzy of the adjournment rush, the legislators found time to designate the usual assortment of special months and weeks. National Medical Transcriptionist Week, for example, will start May 21, and Smokey Bear Week will kick off Aug. 5. All that is left now is for this week to become Congress Finally Whimpers to a Close Week...
...projectiles, creating a deadly fireball inside the fuel-and ammunition-laden tank. The manufacturer claims the tank's armor "does not burn when hit." So far, the Army has refused to load a Bradley with fuel and ammunition and fire a real rocket at it. According to an Aug. 24 memo written by James Wade Jr., a Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, virtually no U.S. equipment is tested under live firing conditions because the costs would be too high...
Last May, Miller began meeting with Svetlana after work. As their relationship blossomed, he poured out his financial and personal woes. On Aug. 12, Ogorodnikova told Miller that she was a KGB major and asked him to sell her information. Less than a week later, in a Malibu restaurant, he agreed but demanded to meet the paymaster first. Ogorodnikova led Miller to her apartment and husband, whom she introduced as Nikolai Wolfson, a KGB operative well versed in transactions "on this level." Miller demanded $50,000 in gold; Wolfson agreed...
...Naval Intelligence Support Center in Suitland, Md., he is the grandson of the Pulitzer-prize-winning naval historian Samuel Eliot Morison. He was arrested last week after his fingerprints were found on the originals of three classified satellite pictures of a new Soviet aircraft carrier that appeared in the Aug. 11 issue of a British defense magazine...
Thank you for the informative article on political action committees [NATION, Aug. 20]. Early in my political career, I accepted some contributions from PACs, but I have been returning all such donations since June 1982.1 became concerned about the perception that votes can be influenced by PAC funds and felt strongly that everyone should be heard, whether or not he or she gives a penny to a political candidate. I am more comfortable and have a sense of freedom without the PAC money...