Word: pens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suffuses his ample frame. But if the sparks were not exactly flying off Holbrooke, the news he brought to Washington was electrifying enough. As a clutch of State Department officials peered over his shoulder, he unfolded a map of Bosnia atop Christopher's desk, took out a ball-point pen and drew a line running from the northern border town of Dvor south to Sanski Most, then snaking southwest to the city of Jajce...
...Afterward, Scowcroft called Cheney. Bandar was coming over, he said, and we were to give him another dose of reality. On his arrival at Cheney's office, Bandar played his usual Americanized, jaunty fighter-pilot role, drinking coffee from a foam cup and stirring it with a gold pen. Ordinarily, we addressed each other in terms bordering on the obscene, with my printable favorites including "Bandar the Magnificent" and "Bandar, you Arab Gatsby," while he called me "Milord." This day we did not kid around...
...sheepish student moved up in the line and adjusted his baseball hat before presenting his copy of Playboy's October issue to Kelli M. Keller '97. She opened it to her picture, and with a fat felt-tipped pen scrawled. "To Wilson, with love," across the shiny page...
Each group gets a cup with a thin layer of acetone in it, along with a suspect, complete with pen...
With the stroke of a pen, President Clinton today forbade federal agencies to consider sexual orientation in granting security clearances. Though gay rights groups praised the move as a signal of respect, TIME's Douglas Waller says agencies are no longer "hung up" on the Cold War mentality that blackballed homosexuals for fear they would be blackmailed. "The CIA no longer screens for homosexuals," Waller says. "About five years ago, other agencies had a question on their polygraph tests about whether the person ever had homosexual tendecies, but people kept on tripping on the polygraph because...