Word: nails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...taking the right stands on issues ranging from civil rights and health care to defense spending and labor problems. And he has done it the hard way--not by acting or sitting in some law office, but by working the political battles from the ground up, fighting tooth and nail over hundreds of issues on his way up from Minnesota attorney general to senator to vice president...
Until the latest attacks, both sides had generally refrained from attacking civilians. But last year, Iranian terrorists struck in Baghdad, using nail bombs to kill scores of people at a crowded bus stop. Meanwhile, Iranian doctors have reported that Iraq has introduced chemical warfare into the conflict. While treating injured civilians in the north, they have observed symptoms of mustard-gas exposure, including skin lesions and lung hemorrhaging...
...issues raised in the budget are familiar to lobbyists and other educators who over the last three years have fought the Reagan cutbacks tooth and nail. These seasoned pros generally make two points about the education budget as it relates to politics--one, many of Reagan's proposed cutbacks are certain to be restored by Congress and, two, it should not play more than a small role in the election campaign...
...when the left foot of the Harvard men's basketball squad's star found its way onto a nail early Sunday morning, it caused a quick readjustment in the Crimson's starting lineup. And last night at Briggs Athletic Center, that shuffle almost caused a mild disaster...
...Before the renovations, if a student drove a nail in the wall, it was one bole in 25 and no one got charged for that," said Fox He added. "We [now] mean business...