Word: glads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...statute is the only one of its kind in the U.S. Sergeant Bob Stocksdale of the state police's narcotics division is hopeful. "We're glad to see this law," he says. "If you get the narcotics dealer in the wallet, that will knock him down. But we just flat don't know yet how, or if, it will work...
...against the military, but the story on the exploding prices of aircraft spare parts made my blood boil [July 25]. It almost makes me glad I am currently out of work, and not able to pay taxes to support this ripoff...
...President Alvaro Magaña aboard, the Ranger sent up 16 of its planes for roaring aerobatics, with bombing (500-lb. ordnance) and strafing practice, while near by the destroyer Fife fired off a fusillade of 75-lb. shells. An obviously impressed Magaña gushed, "I am very glad they are on my side." But Rodolfo Castillo Claramount, a leader of El Salvador's moderate Christian Democrats, pleads for more than war games: "If these shows of strength are not accompanied by an equal effort to strengthen democracy, then they...
Even so, most countries would be glad to have Saudi Arabia's troubles. The Saudis still have an estimated $150 billion in monetary reserves invested abroad. Many Saudi officials, moreover, consider the slump a blessing of sorts, for it allows the country a chance to pause. Says a U.S. banker in the capital city of Riyadh: "The Saudis are not going to run out of money. But they are going to watch what they spend and begin setting priorities...
...love the smell of Malamute in the morning!" With this glad cry, Donald Quinelle (Robin Williams) mushes his dog sled through the snows of New England, eager for his climactic battle with an enemy who, like Donald, has surrendered to the fantasy that violent action, backed by deadly skills in the martial arts, is a necessity for survival in America today. Too bad he has to call time out in their gunfight because he brought the wrong bullets with...