Word: marylander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ways. First, it was brought out not by Simon & Schuster or Random House but by the Naval Institute Press (N.I.P.) of Annapolis, an academic publisher specializing in works like The Mariner's Pocket Companion and Dictionary of Naval Abbreviations. Second, the author is not an experienced novelist but a Maryland insurance broker who wrote his tale of high-tech undersea warfare without having served a single day in the Navy, much less aboard a submarine...
...phrase is at once geographical and conceptual. The Beltway is a 66-mile highway that encompasses the District of Columbia and parts of Maryland and Virginia. Some 1.5 million people live within its confines, sustained by Government jobs, contracts, consultancies and the endless tasks of explaining and influencing the federal behemoth. "They are the most protected single group of people in America today," says the President's pollster, Richard Wirthlin, whose studies show these citizens far beyond the norm in education, income and political involvement. They are shielded from most economic shocks by the deep pockets of the U.S. Treasury...
...though, new laws kept gradually broadening the concept of bribery. In 1881 New York became the first state to make it a misdemeanor to bribe private citizens. During the next half century, 16 other states passed laws against bribing specific kinds of private employees: chauffeurs in Illinois, gardeners in Maryland...
Mornings near sunrise, John Williams, a national park service ranger at the monument grounds, wheels his Toyota up out of the underpasses near the Kennedy Center. When he sees the spire, he feels better. The monument always says something a little different when it greets him. The Maryland marble of which it is constructed has a special quality that picks up the light of the hour and seems to subtly intensify it. "There it is," Williams says to himself, and then he studies the graceful shape to see what shades of gold or pink or gray are mixed...
...possible conflict of interest. While Davis urged that Meese be "counseled" about this conduct, Martin decided that it was sufficient merely to advise Fielding that the "appearance" matter still troubled the ethics office. Martin, who earned his political appointment by helping organize Reagan's 1980 election campaign in Maryland's Montgomery County, insisted that no one had pressured him to change his staff's position. Even so, the agency's turnabout did not satisfy some of the Senators...