Word: posing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...great the way you guys have used, oh, 263-and-a-half inches to tell us about every detail of this affair--how much women would be paid, when Mr. Chan arrived, how many women showed up, and when he left, what it's like to pose for a Playboy photographer. But advertise it? Never...
Chan took two Polaroids of me. Both were clothed, one standing, leaning against the window, one hip out; the other sitting, leaning forward on both hands in more of a Playboy-bunny pose. There was nothing sleazy about the pictures per se and maybe my nervousness was the same as I would feel posing as a model for any photographer. But posing for the pictures was a very strange experience. Putting what I thought was a "Playboy-bunny" expression on my face, sticking hips and chest out, doing all the things that are required for that sort of pose...
...experts, who had studied this possibility, concluded that the ice did not pose a danger and Rockwell's position in effect was dismissed. But once again there had been an apparent misunderstanding about the degree of opposition to proceeding. Testified Aldrich: "A concern was voiced (by Rockwell) but they didn't say 'Don't launch.' " Rogers found this another "serious deficiency in the process...
...hold next year's defense spending at this year's level, and some warn of defense cuts of up to $50 billion. In his televised response to the President's address, House Democratic Majority Leader Jim Wright argued that limiting defense spending would be necessary since budget deficits "themselves pose a danger to our national security." Even some members of the President's own party were moved more by the exigencies of red ink than by the Soviet threat. "It's my feeling that the President's appeal will not fly," stated G.O.P. Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa...
...original goal was to build a missile that could survive a Soviet attack in sufficient numbers to pose a credible threat of retaliation. The big, three-warhead Minuteman is vulnerable to destruction in its silos. The ten- warhead MX is no answer. Though it was supposed to be mobile, the Pentagon could never come up with an acceptable basing mode. The 50 MX's that Congress has agreed to fund are to be parked in Minuteman silos, where they too could be sitting ducks...