Word: potomac
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Critics of Star Wars seized on the initial snafu as proof of the program's folly. Said Physicist Robert Bowman, president of the Institute for Space and Security Studies in Potomac, Md.: "The problem is in applications of an immensely complex system . . . The chances are that (it) never could be debugged...
...life at all times. It was more than a little strange." After Barbara Walker's tip, the FBI secured court permits to tap Walker's telephones. On May 19, after hearing him talk about a special trip to Charlotte, N.C., agents watched his Chevrolet Astro van head north toward Potomac, Md., instead. According to trailing agents, Walker drove evasively, checking to see if he was being followed. He did in fact shake his pursuers for nearly three hours, but they luckily ran across him near Poolesville, Md. On a lonely country road, the agents saw him park near a tree...
Administration officials, who had been cautioning against expecting anything of consequence to flow from Hussein's visit, were pleasantly surprised and intrigued. After a boat ride on the Potomac with the King, Secretary of State George Shultz was encouraged by what Hussein had told him about his latest discussions with Arafat. While emphasizing that many diplomatic obstacles remained, Shultz later declared, "There is motion today. The King's visit has given impetus to the process of peacemaking...
...avid outdoorsman, Volcker generally avoids the Potomac cocktail party circuit, favoring more sporting diversions...
...causing an injury to her neck, for which she must occasionally wear an orthopedic brace. The marriage finally ruptured in the summer of 1983, when Fedders refused to continue psychotherapy after only half a dozen sessions. Mrs. Fedders then ordered her husband out of their $250,000 house in Potomac...