Word: deck
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...While you're at Copley Square, take a minute to visit the tall building. The John Hancock Tower reflects the older buildings around it. The tallest building in Boston, it has a sightseeing deck and museum on its top floor...
...rely entirely on our vehicle's hardware, however. In addition to frequent rations (steadfastly inverting the FDA nutrition pyramid), Nancy employs a clever bag of goodies to keep the peace. About a month before our trip, she begins collecting small toys and games--a deck of cards here, a cache of toy soldiers there--and wraps them as presents to dole out whenever backseat warfare appears imminent. We're going retro this year with Viewmaster reels, portable Parchesi, Mr. Potato Head and other childhood relics that our digitized kids find oddly intriguing...
...Catholicism that stands, on the ideological spectrum, far to the right of what many of even its devotees would like it to be, and thanks to John Paul?s appointees it is not likely to budge. In answer to the forces of liberalism, John Paul II has stacked the deck...
...country's concentration camp to join the fight. She was a nurse relieving the agony of a dying teenager. He was a petty officer standing on the edge of a heaving aircraft carrier with two signal paddles in his hands, helping guide a dive-bomber pilot back onto the deck...
...parliament composed of the 462 legislators elected at the polls, together with 38 appointed by the military and 200 nominated by the present military-backed government. From the initial count, the ruling party is drawing 20 percent of the vote, which would bring it ?- under the stacked-deck electoral system ?- within a whisker of holding on to power. Add to that an opposition vote split between Megawati?s secular Indonesian Democratic Party for Struggle and various Islamic parties, and the country?s next president still looks likely to be decided in a series of backroom deals. Then again, no military...