Word: papering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...through a locked door at ESL. He fired furiously at employees, killing seven and injuring four others, before surrendering to a police SWAT team. Black was seriously wounded. The next day Family Court Commissioner Lois Kittle symbolically made the injunction . permanent, while explaining through tears, "Pieces of paper do not stop bullets...
...paid him to do it, but Lieut. Colonel Oliver North gave what was probably one of 1987's more successful celebrity endorsements. The product: Schleicher & Co. paper shredders. After North told congressional investigators of his "shredding parties," in which he reportedly used a Schleicher Intimus 007 S, the West German firm was flooded with inquiries. Schleicher's 1987 sales jumped by as much...
Secrecy, it seems, is everywhere at a premium. Schleicher sells to schools as well as corporations in 110 countries. The company can even boast that the Intimus 007 S is Ayatullah-proof. By converting a piece of paper into 10,000 flakes, the machine makes it impossible to reassemble shredded documents, as the Iranians did after the U.S. embassy was seized...
...breathless drama that readers of the tabloid New York $ Post (circ. 480,000) have come to expect. Australian-born Media Baron Rupert Murdoch, selling the Post to comply with a federal ban on owning a newspaper and broadcast station in the same city, had threatened to shut down the paper unless unions agreed to $24 million in cost reductions. Murdoch said he needed the cuts to complete the sale of the paper to New York Real Estate Developer Peter Kalikow for $37 million...
...mistake. There is great tension, and it comes from scarcity. The mountains around Tucson, the "astronomy capital of the world," may bristle with telescopes, but they are mighty rare in the remainder of the world. There are about 500 American astronomers who publish at least one scholarly paper a year; there are only eight telescopes large enough to see the extremely faint and faraway objects of interest to many of them...