Word: pedaled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan Administration sought to soft-pedal Shanghai II as a document of diplomatic necessity rather than menace. "We have paid particular attention to the needs and interests of Taiwan," said Reagan, as his Administration formally announced, only two days after Shanghai II was issued, the sale of 60 F-5E fighters, worth some $240 million, to Taipei. The Taiwan government was not mollified by the sale. It has denounced the agreement as a "contravention of the letter and spirit of the [1979] Taiwan Relations Act" that pledged the U.S. to supply Taiwan with weapons for its defense...
Rose Mary Woods, 64, Nixon's longtime personal secretary. Her contortions at federal court hearings on White House tapes, as she tried to demonstrate how she could have mistakenly erased 18½ minutes by simultaneously pressing recorder button and foot pedal while answering telephone, led to widespread suspicion that she was covering up for her boss. Helped Nixon at San Clemente on his post-Watergate books, then retired in 1976 on Government pension of at least $27,000 a year. Lives in Watergate apartments...
Jill Wine-Banks, 39, assistant special Watergate prosecutor. Known for both her miniskirts and her notable comment, "You took your foot off the pedal," when Rose Mary Woods tried to demonstrate how she might have accidentally erased part of Nixon tape. Divorced in 1979. Married Michael Banks, high school sweetheart. General counsel to the Army under Carter, now partner in Chicago law firm headed by Albert Jenner, who was Republican counsel to House Judiciary Committee...
...balloons by popping them with a spike on his hat. But on the second level, the balloons would pile up on his head, so that successive balloons would have a shorter distance to fall from the top of the screen, and the clown would have to pedal faster to get to them. To identify racks as the game progressed, additional falling objects were introduced?flowers, hats and beach balls. While the pedaling clown was catching or kicking these, it was decided there should be occasional hazards too: some of the thrown objects could be anvils that he would have...
...sophisticated new hardware. A gravity feeder-available with cute cat graphics-supplies fresh vittles for a feline left alone for a weekend. There is a timed feeder that mechanically portions out the chow. An enclosed bowl called Step 'n Dine encourages precocious felines to step on a pedal to get at the kibble. For cats who accompany their owners, there are carrying cases that cost as much as $420 for Louis Vuitton versions, and for $33.98, a caring cat owner may invest in a tiny, burglar-and rat-proof door that can be installed at the bottom...