Word: counters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...haven't gone to another counter yet, I snarl apologetically and try reaching over her to get what I want. Sometimes I think I could run out into the street crying "Help me please I'm on fire!" and people would just stand there watching me burn, saying "Where are you from...
Outlining Harvard's policy of extensive dialogue," Steiner said the University believes it can do more to counter oppressive conditions in that country as a shareholder than it could if it severed all its links to companies with operations there...
...successful railroad financier, Schiff began purchasing collections for the Semitic Museum long before its official dedication 82 years ago. His goal was to create an institution that would counter "anti-Semitism in Europe and America by promoting a better knowledge of Semitic history and civilization," he told a gathering of the museum's patrons...
...glitches that have dogged the MX for more than a dozen years have occurred in just about everything except its basic technology. The weapon was conceived as a counter to the new generation of Soviet missiles whose accuracy rendered the silo-based U.S. Minuteman increasingly vulnerable. But the MX until 1983 was a missile in search of a home, or basing mode. In an effort to make it "survivable," or impervious to a Soviet first strike, Pentagon planners studied at least 37 basing ideas, including one that would have kept the MX arsenal permanently airborne and another that would have...
...city of Rostov, authorities uncovered a huge black-market ring; 67 officials, including two highly placed state executives in Moscow, were arrested. The scheme involved rerouting, through bureaucratic channels, scarce meat, butter and clothing to warehouses where the merchandise could be sold under the counter. Realizing that the authorities were closing in, the crooks dumped most of their hoarded supplies onto the official market. In describing the outcome of the scam, the newspaper Izvestiya noted that for once, a Rostov citizen was able to walk into a state-owned store, ask for blue jeans and find them not only available...