Word: guard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Delays in making appointments have hurt foreign policy efforts. Your administration was caught completely off-guard when leaders of five Central American countries met in February and agreed to close down Contra military bases in Honduras in exchange for holding free and open elections in Nicaragua next year...
Back to the streets too, where it is already being disputed more fiercely than ever. The pro-life advance guard is now represented by the shock troops of Operation Rescue chaining themselves to the doorways of abortion clinics. And when more than 300,000 abortion-rights marchers poured through the streets of Washington a few weeks ago, it was clear that the threat to Roe has jolted the desultory pro-choice movement back to life. "You can't expect it to remain peaceful in these circumstances," says Ruth Pakaluk, president of Massachusetts Citizens for Life. "It's like the Civil...
...this charming memoir, half of PBS's MacNeil/Lehrer news team deftly links his early biography to the words and books he learned, to connections made. Born in Montreal but raised mostly in Halifax, Robert MacNeil was the son of a seagoing Mountie (in Canada's equivalent of the Coast Guard) and a Nova Scotian mother who delighted in reading aloud to her sons. MacNeil's first nonbaby words were "gin fizz" -- the name of a teddy bear. He recalls being amazed, on a rare trip aboard his father's corvette, that sailing terms derived from Viking days (coxswain, starboard) still...
...arrest capped off police attempts to find a pattern in what Tempesta called the recent "rash" of break-ins to cars in the garage. Officers determined that most of the crimes were occurring soon after the security guard went off duty...
...December rape at the Science Center has met with the addition of just one extra afternoon security guard. The Science Center has no beeper or alarm system for its workers or its students. Public telephones are located only on the basement floor of the building. The worker or student in the Science Center is hardly safer now than at the time of the rape...