Word: hand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cornfield from recent rains cushioned the crash impact. Fire-resistant seat upholstery installed at the insistence of the National Transportation Safety Board was also credited. So too were the rescue and medical efforts of the Sioux City area. So many doctors responded that there were two on hand for each hospitalized passenger. Local volunteers lined up for more than a block to donate 300 pints of blood, far more than was needed...
...Houston warehouse to see the elephants auctioned off for $1,600 to $2,000 apiece, along with the property of 33 other failed Southwestern thrifts. A 1957 Bentley automobile went for $10,050. Besides computers and other office equipment, the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation also sold hand- carved ivory tusks and even two kitchen sinks...
...Bush invited a couple of students into the presidential limousine; one of them sported a power yellow tie, reflecting Alan Greenspan more than Karl Marx. At the end of a run with dozens of youthful joggers, Bush jovially autographed a dirty sneaker that a child had thrust into his hand...
From breaking bread with Solidarity and Communist bosses in Warsaw to exhorting students in Budapest, Bush plays a winning hand of personal diplomacy. -- The Paris summit underscores a new reality: European nations, not the U.S., may be more able to guide the West's response to changes in the Communist bloc. -- An errant plane, a crash with a miraculous outcome, a puzzling wound...
...dealer-diplomats in LW2 are just your ordinary bad guys. They keep zillions of Krugerrands on hand to finance their chicanery. They have a getaway helicopter conveniently waiting in downtown Los Angeles at the end of a car chase that totals dozens of innocent drivers. Now if only this gang could shoot straight, they might rid the world of Detectives Riggs and Murtaugh (Danny Glover) -- and spare moviegoers further sequels to the loathable smash...