Word: inks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...PRETTY venerable piece of technology. The letters on the page are descended from movable type pioneered by Johanes Gutenberg in the 1400s. The paper is not all that different from papyrus used by the Pharaohs. Books today may be written with word processors, but they are still printed in ink, bound with thread and delivered essentially by hand...
...Kabul until their arrival. The U.N. envoy to Afghanistan, Benon Sevan, asked all factions to set aside their differences and cooperate, but he was less than optimistic. "What they agree to in the morning," he said, "they reject in the evening as if it were signed in invisible ink." Hekmatyar talked with Massoud for two hours by radio and then rejected the compromise plan...
McKee's thick, 37-page Army dossier contains so many blacked-out words that it's hard to glean the danger he faced. Surviving the censor's ink was his title, "Team Chief." Under "Evaluation," it was written that he "performs constantly in the highest-stress environment with clear operational judgment and demeanor . . . Especially strong in accomplishing the mission with minimal guidance and supervision . . . Continues to perform one of the most hazardous and demanding jobs in the Army...
Since Maastricht there has been a growing sense of irritation among Germany's neighbors on a variety of issues. The ink on the Maastricht agreement was hardly dry before Bonn pressured -- some say bullied -- the rest of the E.C. into recognizing the breakaway Yugoslav republics of Croatia and Slovenia. Most of the 12 preferred to wait to give E.C. negotiators a chance to implement a cease-fire, but Germany forced a decision by threatening to go it alone. Then, just before Christmas, the Bundesbank suddenly raised its interest rates, compelling most of the rest of Western Europe to follow...
...shop has since moved to a basement location beneath Ferranti-Dege. In the front room, a glass display case contains silicone spray, Lexol leather conditioner, stain protector, suede dye, wooden shoe stretchers Fiebing's edge ink, Cavalier leather balm, shoelaces, shoehorns, three dozen tones of Meltonian creme polish...