Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Warding off such a flare-up is also, paradoxically enough, the real goal behind the Administration's new initiative. The basic aim of the package is to strengthen America's bargaining hand with foreign competitors without giving Congress the opportunity to make use of such blunt instruments as sizable tariffs and other devices that would provoke retaliation and choke off trade wholesale...
More traditionally English? Feel the freedom of expression granted by blunt objects. And what physics major could resist observing the highspeed impact of one object with another...
...towns and villages in the counties of Kent and Surrey. A rare heavy snowfall forced the closing of major highway and rail links to Scotland and the Lake District. British Rail was forced to cancel all but 3% of its commuter trains to and from the capital. Warned a blunt notice at London's Charing Cross station: "There is very little chance of anyone reaching their intended destination and even less chance of them getting back again...
...Britain sex is lethal, while it seems that spying, though regrettable, can be lived with. A series of sensational double agents at high levels of British intelligence, including Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean and Anthony Blunt, never seriously rocked the British ship of state. But sex scandals have regularly felled British political figures, from War Secretary John Profumo in 1963 to Conservative Party Deputy Chairman Jeffrey Archer last year...
Winter is the killing season in the swamps around the Persian Gulf. It is then that Iran, knowing the heavy rains will blunt the firepower of Iraq's tanks and air force, can most effectively launch its "human wave" assaults against the Iraqi marshlands. For months now, as it has for several winters past, the government of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini has been threatening to launch a "final offensive" against the Iraqis before the beginning of the Persian new year on March...