Word: pose
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...professor falsely accused her of plagiarism) and hard pressed for money, she turned to a modeling career with the Wilhelmina agency. Life on the modeling circuit was fast and daring ("It was a time when women believed they should have sex freely like men did"). She accepted offers to pose nude for Oui and Playboy magazines because the money was good. Hite blames "society" and skin magazines for exploiting women. She says now that the experience was "extremely painful and embarrassing...
Reagan Administration planners believe the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative system, if deployed, would pose a far more dramatic threat to Soviet satellites. Armed with kinetic rockets and, ultimately, particle beams, SDI would pose a greater danger to satellites than to its ostensible targets, incoming Soviet strategic missiles. Indeed, that may largely explain current Soviet worries about...
...know what process leads to sudden death," but he speculates that sickle-cell carriers may be unusually vulnerable to dehydration during prolonged exertion. Kark does not believe affected blacks need worry about participating in strenuous sports. They are less stressful than boot camp, he says, and probably pose little risk. He does recommend the Army begin routine screening for the trait: "It would only be fair to recruits...
...Honasan and his renegades. Property owners who oppose Aquino's land-reform proposals are said to be aligning themselves with the rebels. Vice President Laurel, says David Wurfel, a Philippines expert at Canada's University of Windsor, "appears to be running for election by the military. He wants to pose himself as the civilian protector of a military regime...
Although Taylor is the first official to work at PBH--officially a student-run organization--and be paid by the University, MacDonald said he did not think her presence would pose a threat to the group's independence...