Word: gram
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...police alert goes out. Dozens of officers search the courthouse corridors. One policeman, Gerald Baetzhold, draws his revolver, trips and shoots himself in the foot. Our hero, unaware of the chaos he has caused, has already left the building and delivered a Rambo-gram, a terse but humorous message, to a lawyer across the street...
...real-life drama last week was precipitated by a joke: Rambo was an impersonator named Mark Stancampiano. Mission accomplished, he was heading back to his car when two more officers nabbed him. Stancampiano was later charged with disorderly conduct. Nonetheless, his boss, John Gowen, who has been selling Rambo-grams for six weeks at $64.95 a message, was excited by the publicity. Late last week he was planning to start a new service: the Miss Rambo-gram...
...price tag could also be out of this world: an estimated $84 billion. NASA protests that the expense is not much greater than the cost of the original Apollo pro gram in today's dollars, a mere $73 billion...
Taylor said that a mouse uses 15 times more energy per gram of muscle than a horse running at the same speed...
America's national defense and prestige have risen even more conspicuously. Our support for the British defense of the Falkland Islands, the selfless service of Marines as a peacekeeping force in Lebanon, the lifting of the senseless Soviet gram embargo, the election of a free government in H. Salvadot and the advent of peace negotiations there, the withdrawal of martial lass restrictions upon the people of Poland, and marked growth in relations with Communist China ill represent significant international achievements...