Word: intact
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grant a refund on stolen tickets. Reporting crimes to police, who can display as much apathy as their big-city American counterparts, is still worthwhile. Authorities can help stop credit- card abuse, and will usually issue letters confirming losses for insurance companies. Paris police often recover wallets and purses intact with cards and passports, because most thieves are only looking for ready cash...
Elesh is not present on the crania and several teeth are missing from both, according to observers. The temple of the wax covered skull had been crushed and only the law, nasal and eyes remained intact on the second bone structure...
...analysis, Zimbabwe is not a socialist country now and does not seem to be heading in that direction. According to Marx, who expounded most on how socialism is achieved, this social system requires a revolution initiated by the working class. Also, economic classes do not exist after socialism is intact. Both of these attributes are missing in Zimbabwe...
...major victory for Reagan, if only because it reversed one of the most embarrassing foreign policy setbacks of his presidency. Last week's vote sent a message of U.S. resolve not only to the contras, who have suffered some supply shortages but have managed to remain largely intact during the cutoff (see box). The congressional turnabout also reassured other governments in the region, notably those of Honduras and Costa Rica, from whose territory the rebels stage their forays into Nicaragua. Finally, the showdown over the contras vindicated Reagan's strategy of legislative persistence, a political trademark sometimes dismissed...
Though forensic medicine has become highly refined in recent years, the trained eye is still among the most reliable tools. Sex, for instance, can be identified by the shape of the intact pelvis: generally, a woman's has a wider opening to permit childbirth. Height can be calculated, within an inch or two, from the lengths of the major arm or leg bones. Race can be indicated by the texture of the hair or from certain features of the skull, among them the shape of the eye sockets and the spacing of the nasal apertures...