Word: pit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Republican congressional leaders last week, a group of G.O.P. lawmakers led by Senators Charles Grassley of Iowa and Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas contended in effect that much of the roughly $1 trillion spent on defense in the past four years had disappeared into what Grassley called a "bottomless pit" of Pentagon waste...
This problem, Peterkin said, would pit the ethnically and racially diverse population of Cambridge against those of, for example, Pittsfield residents'. If the bill passes, he would submit his plan to state authorities, but if enough resources existed to develop the plan, Peterkin would not let the Board tell him that "the multi-lingual, multi-cultural education interferes with their computer literacy education...
...purpose was not to pit master against each other or have them act as representatives of all master," Levin said. "The master would have some observation that would be enlightening to everybody freshman especially...
Saturday's shindig with Lafayette will be the first meeting in history between the two clubs, and will pit Crimson Coach Frank McLaughlin against legendary Lafayette mentor Butch van Breda Kolff...
...letters to his British editors at Jane's, where he was employed part-time at $5,000 a year with the knowledge of his Pentagon supervisors. One letter thanked Jane's for remuneration for certain "items" that he had supplied; the other described his NISC job as a "pit" and expressed a wish to work full-time for Jane...