Word: guarde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...handgun that weighs only 23 oz. and is made partly of superhardened plastic. When disassembled, the Austrian-made weapon, known as the Glock 17, does not look like a firearm. Only its barrel, slide and springs, which are metal, show up on airport scanners. The polymer handgrip, trigger guard and ammunition clip that complete its profile as a gun do not set off the security devices...
...reception in Moscow. This is a town that has banned neon and has precious few streetlights or sidewalks. Residents pick up their mail at the post office because houses are identified by names like "Apricot Pit" or "Little Sur" but have no street addresses. The mayor would like to guard this ambience even more vigorously; she is proud of the fact that during her two terms the business district has actually got smaller...
...Celtics fans will recognize the name of star Philadelphia 76'ers point guard and Celtics-nemesis Maurice Cheeks. Though there are few other NBA players whose last names are also parts of the body, there have been several baseball players whose surnames fall into this category. Ten points if you can identify the only body part listed below not represented by a major leaguer (with minor spelling variations allowed...
...women members, such as House Budget Committee Chairman William Gray of Philadelphia and San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein. Moreover, it has expanded its ranks from about 20 to 110, of whom 79 are members of Congress. While the D.L.C. is not nudging any closer to the party's Old Guard, the Old Guard seems to be edging closer to the D.L.C. The recent move by as many as a dozen Southern states to coordinate an influential regional presidential primary in March 1988 may push the two factions into a bona fide embrace...
...first the skirmish prompted a bit of anxiety among moneymen, especially when Seger declared that the board was no longer Volcker's "one-man show." Financiers feared that the Reagan appointees might lower the Federal Reserve's guard against inflation and bend too much to the Administration's eagerness to expand the economy. Said Norman Robertson, chief economist at Pittsburgh's Mellon Bank: "Any pretense of the Fed being nonpolitical is now gone...