Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Walter Edgington, a GTE vice president; Robert Carter, a former marketing manager; and Bernie Zettl, a defense-industry consultant in McLean, Va. Investigators say that Edgington requested documents from Zettl, a retired Air Force major, who got them through Pentagon contacts and sent the material to a post office box in Mountain View, Calif. Carter allegedly picked up the purloined papers. Zettl and Edgington, who were indicted for receiving classified documents, could be sentenced to 25 years in prison, and Carter faces a conspiracy charge that may result in a five-year term...
Accordingly, in keeping with the shake-up that has been under way throughout the country for some time, it is expected that as many as nine members of the party's so-called third echelon (see box) could be named to the 24-member Politburo, while between 30 and 50 newcomers could replace party veterans on the 210-member Central Committee. Says a middle-level official: "The changes will be part of a flowing movement rather than an abrupt one, but they will be substantial and profound." Deng, who knows full well that no program of reforms is irreversible...
This is not a vendetta against the irascible genius who batted .367 over 24 seasons, though relative merits are always debatable (see box). Rose has decided "you couldn't be that bad a guy and get 4,191 hits." And he has known all along "you can't compare Honus Wagner and Ty Cobb with Peter Rose and (Boston's .349-batting) Wade Boggs. I respect all of the old-timers. They did what they had to do against the competition they had to play against. The travel was better in those days; the surfaces are better today...
...real emergency, Campion would next reach for an 8-in. by 10-in. painted red metal box sealed by two combination locks. Each officer knows one, but not both, of the combinations. Inside are further authenticating documents, plus the keys needed to activate the missiles. To prevent such an action from occurring on the judgment of a single officer, the locks into which the keys fit are situated 12 ft. apart and must be turned simultaneously...
...three dollar bleacher seats are cheaper than tickets to the zoo; dishing out the four extra bucks for more civilized lodgings in the grandstand or box seats will save your clothes numerous beer baths...