Word: cedar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there are no immediate plans to excavate the ship, the scientists resealed the entrance hole after meticulously filming every inch of the chamber for later study and mapping. Using a special zoom lens, they filmed everything from the markings on the walls to the lengths of the boat's cedar planks. From the film, archaeologists hope to determine the size of the ship -- and perhaps even discover clues to its purpose. Some scholars believe the vessels were intended to carry the spirits of the dead on their eternal journey around the earth with the sun-god Ra. They disagree, though...
...trade treaty to Reagan during the second "shamrock summit," which took place last year. Reagan, an avowed free trader, embraced the idea. But even as negotiations proceeded, bitter disputes arose. In one case, the Administration bowed to pressure from U.S. lumber companies by slapping a 35% tariff on Canadian cedar shakes and shingles...
...year after she turned from oils to lint, Barron was divorced and, she says, happily so. The last stop in the peripatetic life of a military wife was Long Beach, and there she settled in a stucco house with a cedar-shake roof, palms and jacarandas along the street, rosebushes and jasmines running along the fence. From this base she would attain a master's in fine arts, a job teaching at nearby Brooks College and a world of lint. Friends, neighbors, students began to save...
Before leaving Cedar Rapids on Tuesday, Dukakis said he would not accept any funds from political action committees in the long and expensive campaign for the presidency, because he does not want special interests to dominate the political process...
...soaring life-style that perhaps brought the downfall of Martin Siegel. Besides keeping a posh Manhattan apartment, he and his wife built a spectacular cedar-and-glass beachfront home on Connecticut's Long Island Sound, complete with tennis court and gym. He typically commuted to work in a chartered helicopter. Siegel reportedly met with Boesky in New York City's Harvard Club in 1982 and bemoaned his compensation at Kidder, Peabody, which he viewed as inadequate even though it was already well into six figures. That lunch date allegedly led to the tip-selling arrangement in which Siegel boosted...