Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...camaraderie of hunting. I like sleeping in tents and sleeping bags. I like the smell of horse manure and horses. If I happen to get a deer, I'm delighted. I'd much rather be sitting in a deer camp than in the President's box at Kennedy Center...
Perhaps you could have reduced the facts to a single paragraph and devoted the rest of each article to tribute from teachers and friends. If time constraints made it impossible to prepare an appropriate article on short notice, you might have given notice of death in a small box on the front page and printed a full memorial on the editorial page several days later...
...compromise package of $62 million worth of proposed emergency military aid for El Salvador. Without the funds, insisted Reagan, the 30,000-member Salvadoran army would soon be unable to defend the country against the guerrillas, whose unity is sometimes debatable but whose destructiveness is beyond dispute (see box). The Senate gave tentative approval to the aid, but, chiefly through the efforts of Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, a promised formal vote on the funds was delayed until this week in order to keep attention focused on the Administration's Central American policies...
...cards, to prevent double-voting. A precinct secretary would then look up the ID number on the computerized voting list, mark it, and hand out a ballot emblazoned with the party emblems of the competing candidates. After the voter marked his ballot and placed it in a transparent Lucite box (to forestall accusations of ballot-box stuffing), his ID card was stamped and his finger dipped in indelible ink. AL told, more than 180,000 people monitored the process. The commissioners forgot just three things: the F.M.L.N. guerrillas, the dislocation produced by more than four years of civil...
...price of a pending sale of the Denver Broncos is reportedly not much lower. The Dallas transaction, largest in sports history, includes $20 million for the remaining 65 years on the lease to operate Texas Stadium, where Bright, 63, is shortly expected to announce a building boom in luxury boxes, the sale of which could bring $40 million (one stadium box recently went for $1 million). Real Estate Executive Craig Hall, 33, a 10% holder, said, "Nobody is looking to take large dividends. The investment will continue to appreciate if the team is allowed to maintain its standards of quality...