Word: containers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...records into the courtroom for the first time since Watergate, U.S. District Court Judge Harold Greene ruled last week that Ronald Reagan must turn over portions of his private diaries to his onetime National Security Adviser John Poindexter. In Greene's view, 29 of the handwritten entries could "contain information of significance" to Poindexter's defense in the Iran-contra trial. Greene, who has viewed transcripts of the journals, says they hold no bombshells that will refute the former Commander in Chief's claims that he neither "knew of nor authorized" a diversion of Iranian arms-sale profits to help...
...hard to contain because it is highly contagious, comes in many varieties, and can originate almost anywhere. It has plagued humanity at least since 412 B.C., according to an account by the Greek physician Hippocrates. By far the most devastating flu season on record was in 1918-19, when some 20 million people worldwide -- including 500,000 in the U.S. -- died of the "Spanish...
...McCrary, with Safire in tow, rushed to Washington to advise industrialist Bernard Goldfine how to contain the scandal over his gift of a vicuna coat to Sherman Adams, Eisenhower's chief of staff. As McCrary tells it, Safire crawled across an outside window ledge on an upper floor of the Sheraton-Carlton Hotel to nab an assistant to columnist Drew Pearson and a congressional investigator bugging Goldfine's room...
Building a crustacean resort may be a worthwhile investment for seafood shippers, since lobster meat sells for as much as $40 a lb. in Japan and Taiwan. The large-scale tank, which could hold more than 1 million lbs. of live lobster, would contain seawater pumped from the ocean depths at a temperature of about 40 degrees...
...free fancy pastries, creamy cakes and gooey snacks. This month Entenmann's introduced a dozen no-fat desserts, including Bavarian Creme Pastry and % Pineapple Crunch Cake. They are made with nonfat milk and egg whites instead of whole eggs; according to Entenmann's, they do not contain a trace of oil, margarine or butter. Meanwhile, Hostess cupcakes, a favorite after-school snack for generations of children, will now come in a 97% fat-free version. Hostess Lights will seem more like sponge cake than a cupcake...