Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some Soviet politicians and scientists now claim that a cover-up is still going on. They charge that 1) the accident released at least 20 times more radiation than the government has admitted, 2) Communist officials failed to evacuate nearby towns and cities right away, although they knew of the danger, and 3) the Soviet nuclear establishment had known that the Chernobyl design was unsafe. "I believe we must launch an investigation and learn who was responsible," says Alexei Yablokov, deputy chairman of the Committee on Ecology and the Rational Use of Natural Resources in the Congress of People...
...They seemed to be really overconscious of our outside stuff," Perry added. "What we see is every time we set predominantly to one side, the linebackers kick over so there's only three people on the weak side. You just can't cover that type of pursuit, especially when I'm running one direction and we run so many plays off that action and I just hand the ball to Mark going the other direction and he has four blockers out there...
This summer, Newsday, Long Island's bible of local politics, ran a cover story outlining the several dozen men (no women) who run Nassau County, listing their outrageous salaries (mostly for part-time jobs) and their potential conflicts of interest. The Republicans will still win again this year...
Many voters in Massachusetts--now paying the first installments of an emergency increase in the state income tax of three-quarters of 1 percent--may not approve of a $855 million tax package to cover the deficit, under consideration in the Democrat controlled House of Representatives...
...Cover: Photograph by Filip Horvat/Saba