Word: mate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scrappy Big Green squad then proceeded to tie the contest up in the sixth after McCormack led off with a triple over the head of center fielder Landya Boyer Her team mate and fellow offensive weapon. Woolman then brought her in, an dcame in herself, when her sizzling shot to left field went through the legs of Crimson fielder MacKinnon...
...anticipation of just such a rescue, Solar Max's creators equipped the satellite with a pin, or trunnion, near its midriff. It forms a perfect mate with a gadget to be carried by Nelson that looks like a fat belly button. NASA calls that protrusion TPAD (for trunnion pin attachment device). Nelson will attach the TPAD to the pin and then fire some of the MMU'S thrusters to brake Solar Max's rotation...
...Oval Office without an appointment. Within a year of the Inauguration, however, his operational influence began to fade. Though an inveterate draftsman of organization charts, Meese was disorganized. Those he chose for staff positions were considered weak and ineffectual. But he was still Reagan's closest ideological soul mate, valued for his unswerving loyalty and his ability to reflect the President's political instincts...
Central America offered another chance to show we had learned this lesson. The war in El Salvador seemed to be a slale-mate. No stalemate could have existed without the massive support of outside sources. I believed that through economic, political and security measures we should persuade the Soviets and Cubans to put an end to Havana's bloody activities in the hemisphere and elsewhere in the world. In Central America there could not be the slightest doubt that Cuba was at once the source of supply and the catechist of the Salvadoran insurgency...
...ambitious Darman, 40, who had never even met Reagan prior to the 1980 election and who is an anomaly among Reagan's hard-right constituency. In the shake-out of White House responsibilities created by the departure of Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese, Reagan's last ideological soul mate in the West Wing, Darman continued his steady, determined rise into the inner circle. Says Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver: "Dick Darman is one of the most powerful people here. He has made an incredible contribution to this presidency...