Word: buy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SOME miscalculating psychiatrists performed a series of tests in the 1960s to discover which hue of color relieved feelings of fear and anxiety. After the study found that students would feel "more comfortable" if their exam books were a soft, pale blue, universities and high schools began to buy the now infamous "blue books...
...critical question thus becomes which of the missiles to buy. The ten- warhead MX, which Reagan dubbed the Peacekeeper, is a proven, highly accurate ICBM. In one option, the 50 MX's already deployed in ICBM silos would be supplemented by another 50 "garrisoned" on special railroad cars stationed on military bases. If a U.S.-Soviet confrontation loomed, the missiles would be moved out on 180,000 miles of railway across the nation. The main advantage of this scheme is its relatively low price tag: an estimated $12 billion for 50 missiles carrying 500 warheads. A somewhat cheaper option...
...move, if only to escape the impression that he alone is standing still while events run beyond his control. He is expected to arrive with a proposal for elections among the Palestinians in the West Bank, followed by negotiations between those elected representatives and Israel. He wants to buy time by avoiding the question of whether Israeli withdrawal from -- and Arab sovereignty over -- the West Bank might someday be on the agenda of those negotiations. The Bush Administration will probably not insist that he bless the idea of territorial compromise in advance, but as his part of the bargain...
...entice some 18 Florida and New Jersey women into setting up drug deals that led to their arrest. Instead of targeting street-level dealers and wholesale drug salesmen, Portell promised love and occasionally marriage if the women, most with no prior criminal record, would only set up a cocaine buy. When the deals went down, DEA agents were on hand to make an arrest. Defense lawyers charge that Portell's undercover work, for which the DEA has paid him $73,000, amounts to entrapment...
...later, UNLV's then assistant coach Mark Warkentien became his legal guardian. It was arranged for Daniels to attend a California junior college to get his grades up and help him with his reading. He then enrolled at UNLV. But on Feb. 9, 1987, Daniels was arrested attempting to buy crack. Perry paid the $1,500 to bail...