Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Would he last for years, six months, six weeks? At a press conference in Naples, Clinton said he saw no reason to panic. Though South Korean President Kim Young Sam had ordered his forces on emergency alert just in case, Clinton said he agreed with Washington's top brass that events had revealed "no evident alarming change" and that nothing ) so far warranted beefing up the 35,000 U.S. forces now stationed in the South. Asked what he thought of Kim Jong Il's prospects, however, the President admitted, "I don't know how to answer that...
...political-campaign funds to lease cars for his personal use. In the most serious charge, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, he was accused of witness tampering for allegedly asking an engraver to say nothing to a federal grand jury about 50 brass plates he had engraved for the gift crystal...
...drew nearer, few workers were certain of the exact date, but they could detect the quickening pace. Bernard Taylor, 84, was superintendent of a Boeing plant in Wichita, Kansas, making PT-17 flight trainers. One day in November 1941, Taylor noted a harried congregation of high military brass outside his plant. Then he was called in by his boss, who declared, "You're in the glider business...
Still, the sticky hot summer air and the freshly groomed sod in Harvard Yard tell me that graduation, in all of its manicured magnificence, is soon upon us. There are a few things I should have liked to have said along side the University's brass and opposite fellow Harvard students come to celebrate the glories of the day. Here's an excerpt from a Commencement address that will...
...Submersible well pumps with brass parts may contain high levels of lead, according to a recent report. Because lead can cause birth defects and brain damage in children, the Environmental Protection Agency advises people who use a submersible pump to have their water tested and to consider switching to bottled drinking water until the results are in. About 6 million such pumps are used...