Word: customs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard Coop has also adapted to the morestringent enforcement of the copyright laws.Sourcebooks sold at Coop now include a messagesaying that the Coop's Custom Publishing unit has"paid all proper royalties for all materialsenclosed...
After a busy day at the clinic, Dr. Damon Stutes, 43, changes out of his surgical scrubs and climbs into his four-wheel-drive truck, custom built for high-speed chases. He slides open his Berretta pistol to make sure it is loaded. Pointing a remote control toward a video screen on the garage wall, he flips through eight channels, each offering a different camera view of the outside grounds. As the garage's metal door slides open, he tucks a bulletproof vest between his body and the truck window and steps on the gas. "Once I start moving...
...different day," said Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, asNewt Gingrich, the new speaker of the House of Representatives, wielded a large, custom-made walnut gavel to begin the GOP campaign to fulfill the party's "Contract With America" today. In a 43-minute address to the House, Gingrich said he had two over-riding goals: to achieve a balanced budget by 2002 and "to truly replace the current welfare state with an opportunity society." He swore in the new members of the House and began debate on rule changes that would slash committee staffs, abolish three House committees and require...
...human relationships. Before you can open an account, brokers make you fill out a questionnaire in which you must reveal your net worth (something you wouldn't tell your best friend) and whether you are a gambler or a tightwad -- all in the interest of designing a custom-made portfolio. At the end of this inquisition the broker knows a great deal about you, whereas you know almost nothing about the broker. Then you hand over your life's savings to this total stranger...
...doing the sort of thing a 20th century monarch is supposed to do: moving gracefully through a state visit to Russia, the first ever by a British sovereign. At her side was her consort, the Duke of Edinburgh, elegantly performing his task, which is simply to support her. Custom and ceremony incarnate, they were national symbols to be proud...