Word: fibers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which brand-new Marine recruits are told to stand; the puce and canary Braniff jetliners that fly replacements to Da Nang as if it were a trip to Disney World; U.C.L.A. sweatshirts left behind by retreating Viet Cong; the exploding shoeshine box of an urchin-guerrilla; the contoured fiber-glass chairs that give a military morgue the look of a "futuristic barbership"; the computer printout that informs one veteran that he has been honorably discharged ("I thought I'd at least get a little plaque or something...
Modern vests, made of fiber glass, are both lightweight and flexible.*Ted Gunderson, former head of the FBI's Los Angeles office, suggests that whenever possible, the President should exit a hotel or auditorium through a basement garage. The Secret Service argues that the President risks being trapped in a basement garage, and so prefers ushering him through an exit that leads to an open driveway-and the waiting limousine. Others recommend that the Secret Service start closing off streets around the exit to all spectators; some even suggest that the President entirely stop mingling and shaking hands with...
...beyond a certain point, not as a right, but as a privilege. Education must no longer be regarded as painless but as an enterprise in which intelligence, talent, effort and discipline are prized rather than devalued, as they are now. Examining the elusive topic of the country's moral fiber, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED looks at competition in America and its importance not only in sports but in all areas of life. PEOPLE takes up the forces battering the American family, as well as the deep needs that keep it together. PEOPLE also looks at the role that can be played...
...hopes high at the moment. Pennsylvania's Republican Governor Richard Thornburgh explains the Reagan election in terms of ideas: "The status of the individual in society, fiscal integrity, the idea of true federalism, the idea of Government closer to the people, the idea of the toughness of the American fiber, which means a firm line with criminals at home and with our adversaries abroad. With Reagan's election, Republican principles hold the high ground, the principles which put together the real genesis of the Reagan victory. Those principles are now a majority view...
...metal roof and framed in a large L-shaped veranda, the room they use the most now. The mountain air was cold that winter, and the fog sometimes so thick they could barely see out the windows. The old roof was pulled away and replaced by red-brown fiber glass tile. One day the wind was so strong, Reagan remembers, that some of the tile and long boards flew out of their hands. Inside they laid a red vinyl floor, working in the chill with small electric heaters to make the glue stick. They set traps trying to kill...