Word: figs
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...troops under NATO command, an option unacceptable to Russia after more than four decades of cold war opposition to the alliance, the Russian soldiers would be under American command. However, American orders would be subject to approval by Russian subordinates. A nato diplomat described the unusual arrangement as "a fig leaf...
...example, Dixon says the economic influenceof East Cambridge--where both the Fig Newtoncookie and the Polaroid camera were invented--isoften neglected in standard tours of the city...
TIME Washington correspondent Nina Burleighsays Republican congressmen David McIntosh of Indiana and Matt Salman of Arizona are circulating a letter urging the members to drop their opposition. "They regard it as a fig leaf allowing these members to come back into the fold," Burleigh says...
...Your equipment is fine,'' Codex says. ``I'm encrypting your back channel. To the cable company, it looks like noise. As you fig ured out, that number is your personal encryption key. No government or corporation on earth can eavesdrop...
...city of Boston also condemned Weld's plan. "The cumulative effect of this basically creates nothing more than a fig leaf of protection," said Howard Leibowitz, director of inter-governmental relations for Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino...