Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Government's glossy brochure offers 19 different sites. There is the high-tech Xanadu in Fort Lauderdale, with poolside bar and five bathrooms with French bidets. Other bidders may prefer a six-bedroom oceanfront estate in Vero Beach, with orchid ballroom, hand-painted wood floors and swimming pool; the cunning security system permits leisurely monitored strolls across the seven-acre compound. The GSA, which placed discreet ads in major newspapers in the U.S. and abroad, has received inquiries from as far away as Europe and China. Says GSA Officer Howard DeVane: "They all know a good deal when they...
Robert A. Haskell Long Beach, Calif...
...expensive and useless weapon. The study was released by Oregon's Republican Congressman Denny Smith, a fierce opponent of DIVAD. According to the report, the Pentagon was too concerned with producing the weapon swiftly to bargain carefully with the manufacturer, the Ford Aerospace and Communications Corp. of Newport Beach, Calif., a division of Ford Motor Co. Said Smith: "Not only are we buying a DIVAD that doesn't work; the taxpayers are being ripped off by excessive charges...
...perched on trees, guinea pigs peering from hollow trunks. It was a complete Noah's ark." In The Adventure of a Bather, a respectable signora is horrified to discover that the bottom of her newfangled two-piece bathing suit has come off while she swims near a crowded beach...
...blustery day last fall that State Rep. George Keverian '53 (D-Everett) met House Speaker Thomas W. McGee (D-Lynn) on Reverse Beach and told the 9-year monarch of the State House that he would challenge his leadership this coming January...