Word: keyed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meeting with the President in Reykjavik, General Secretary Gorbachev said he was now prepared for an interim agreement -- a limit of 100 LRINF missile warheads for each side, all deployed outside Europe. This was consistent with the U.S. interim proposal, although key issues remained. Thus NATO's resolve may have brought us to the point of success...
...grand jury said it has discovered more than $200,000 worth of illicit funneling of funds, salaries and equipment from the reconstruction project, along with $150,000 in other questionable disbursements. Much of the blame for the fiasco, said the jury's report, "lies with the mayor and the key people on whom he relied." Replied Goode: "I wanted more than anything else in the world to get those families back in their homes, and therefore I took aggressive, unusual steps to achieve that." Philadelphians will make a further judgment in the Democratic mayoral primary next week...
...Buddha's free-form style is notoriously difficult to back up, and is best suited to a low key bass accompaniment. But this backing band's overblown sound could have been straight out of Blues Brothers soundtrack, with lead guitar from Spinal Tap. Perhaps the most spontaneous moment came when the backing guitarist announced that the videos would be on sale after the show, and the Buddha put on his black spaceman glasses to rousing applause...
Exceptions to this rule only prove it. For example, every year about this time attractive advertisements begin to circulate offering high wages for what is described as ethical work. The key word to look for in these pamphlets is "fundraising...
...questions themselves are not enough for us: we want explanations as well. Taking on the guise of armchair psychologists, we point to Hart's puritanical mother. Perhaps his childhood of repression was the key to his adulthood of lechery. When we are at loss for answers we turn to "experts" such as former Hart pollster Pat Caddell who, in the most ominous of tones, confides to us that Hart has had a long-standing political death wish...