Word: coatings
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...sunscreens designed to block ultraviolet radiation. People who have already had a basal-cell carcinoma run a 25% risk of developing another and must be especially cautious. Last week Reagan admitted that this advice was "a little heartbreaking ... because all my life I've lived with a coat of tan, dating back to my lifeguard days...
Some three months after arriving in Tokyo to study the Japanese language and culture, an Englishman in his mid 20s happens upon a restaurant where he thinks he can find some pizza and beer. After checking his coat, he is horrified to be presented with a cloakroom tab for more than the garment is worth. While he tries haltingly to talk his way out of this mess, he is rescued by Ichimonji, an older and evidently much wealthier man. This patron takes the young foreigner under his protection and guides him through an evening of serious drinking at a succession...
...after buying three-quarters of a million at $85.20 apiece, the Department of Defense discovered that three manufacturers had delivered defective versions made with scrap material. Army officials say that even though the second-rate helmets offer more protection than the old steel models, "We ordered a vicuņa coat and got something that wasn...
...looked rather like a businessman in a hurry, clad in a tan trench coat and bounding up the stairs of the plane. As he neared the top, he turned and gave a wide wave, as if bidding farewell to friends. Though his behavior seemed unexceptional, even banal, that was no ordinary traveler boarding the Aeroflot jet at Dulles Airport last week. He was Vitaly Yurchenko, the Soviet KGB agent who had disappeared from a Rome street one sunny day last summer and turned up several weeks later as a defector in CIA hands. Identified initially as the fifth-highest official...
Although he had admitted passing a classified FBI manual to his blond KGB lover Svetlana Ogorodnikova in exchange for promises of $65,000 and a $675 trench coat, the defense insisted that Miller was trying to infiltrate a Soviet spy ring. One of the two jurors who voted against the conviction on three major counts of espionage later told the Los Angeles Herald Examiner that he felt the confession had been coerced. "He was browbeaten and swayed by the [FBI] interrogation," said the dissenting juror. "He would have signed anything put in front of him." Undeterred, prosecuting U.S. Attorney Robert...