Word: bunkered
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Though Astoria, Queens, was home to the xenophobic Archie Bunker on All in the Family, Manton's is one of the most racially inclusive districts in the U.S. Consequently, the six-term incumbent's interests are diverse, including legislation to encourage U.S. companies to invest in India, to test convicted rape offenders for HIV, and to include taggants in gunpowder to help trace explosives. This middle-class, urban area leans Democratic, and Manton held onto his seat in 1994 by an overwhelming...
...Army's 37th Engineer Battalion could have been exposed to traces of chemical weapons when they blew up ammunition at the Kamisiyah weapons depot in southern Iraq on March 4, 1991. It was one day after Iraq's surrender, ending the Gulf War, and the unit was destroying Bunker 73, which contained rockets brimming with the virulent gas sarin. Three weeks ago, a presidential commission tripled--to 1,100--its estimate of the number of G.I.s exposed to the poison during that incident. Then last Wednesday the Pentagon said it was alerting 5,000 American troops who may have been...
...cover of TIME, scoring face time with America as the impish subject of a story that billed him as "The Man Who Has Clinton's Ear." The TIME cover set off other media profiles. The rule among campaign consultants is "Don't put your head above the bunker." But when the candidates move toward the stratosphere, everything that makes the consultants human makes them want to claim credit...
...this was a bomb, we should stand up to the terrorists, not give in to panic. If paranoia wins, the bombers win: they rob us of our peace of mind and our tradition of freedom; we accept a bunker culture in which liberty loses to suffocating security measures. We dishonor the memory of our dead by giving in to hysterical fear. And we betray our children, who look to us for strength. We take pride in singing about the home of the brave; now is the time to show that this is. PATRICK GRANT New York City...
Look for the tell-tale signs of gentrification--the too-freshly painted fire escapes and Volvos parked along the street as you leave the North End. Then cross the Charles River to the predominantly Irish Charlestown and Bunker Hill Monument, a 220 foot obelisk that commemorates one of the first battles of the Revolutionary...