Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quirky, nomination speech compared the Senate to the Washington Redskins football team and cast Stevens as a man who had valuable experience playing "backup quarterback." But the elder statesman's plug was not enough. Stevens, known for his combustible temper, lost by three votes, and in a display of characteristic crotchetiness, immediately threatened to renew his challenge to Dole in two years...
...permission to travel outside the country. In addition, a much touted "national dialogue," in which political parties, church authorities and social groups were to join in thrashing out the nation's problems, began to fall apart when some members of the main opposition group withdrew, charging that the display of pluralism was an empty gesture. "The dialogue is the difference between war and peace," said an opposition member. "Nobody wants to say he's chosen war, but it certainly looks like an impasse...
Thus did the regime of Augusto Pinochet Ugarte prepare for a planned two-day protest against the Chilean President's rule, which was toughened by a state of siege declared on Nov. 6. The display of weaponry exceeded the response to previous street demonstrations, which have cost the lives of at least 110 civilians in the past 18 months. Last week's show of muscle was preceded by a campaign of intimidation at nearly every civilian level. Police made scores of arrests of leftist political and labor leaders. A government spokesman informed foreign newsmen that their credentials...
Condoms are now also easier to buy. They emerged from behind the pharmacist's counter after a 1977 U.S. Supreme Court ruling made it legal to advertise and display them. Today about the only difficult part of buying them is choosing from some 50 brands of varying colors and textures. Such old established types as Trojans and Sheik have been joined by slickly packaged ones with names like LifeStyles Stimula...
Even the Big Red players get into the act. Last year, as the hosts were introduced, they skated out one by one and skidded to a halt at mid-ice, kicking up a spray of ice at the Crimson. Defenseman Mike Schafer topped off the display by cracking his stick over his helmet and furiously shaking the splinters at the visitors...