Word: rare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they are buying some of our best furs," says Claire de Montesquiou of Revillon, where a trench-style coat in black mink sells for $7,600, in contrast to $10,200 at the Revillon salon in Saks Fifth Avenue. The most expensive fur coats in France are the rare Russian lynx. Revillon sold one this winter for $303,000, but thinks it indiscreet to say who bought it. Eat your heart out, Lorelei...
...assault on the village was one of a series of raids launched by the guerrillas against lightly defended targets. It came at a time when attacks by large units are relatively rare in El Salvador's civil war. Before legislative elections last month small groups of insurgents hit more than 20 small towns, burning government buildings and public records. In response, the Salvadoran government, with the help of U.S. military advisers, has been rejuvenating the country's civil defense network. One of the rebels' publicly declared goals is to undermine that effort; the object of the assault on Santa Cruz...
...days of wide release, Mask is this year's first strong entry in the weepstakes. Its subject, Rocky Dennis, was the butt of one of God's practical jokes. This bright teenager had a preternaturally sweet disposition--and the grotesque face of Bert Lahr's Cowardly Lion. Rocky's rare disease, craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, ended his life at 16, in 1978. And yet (of course) he was one of nature's noblemen, loved by puppies, blind girls and the motorcycle gang his mother Rusty hung out with. "I look weird," says Rocky (Eric Stoltz, in a wonderfully authentic performance), "but otherwise...
...West got a rare inside look at the Kremlin's technological espionage last week when secret Soviet documents came to light in France. The material was obtained by French intelligence agents, who leaked it to Le Monde, the Paris newspaper, and TF1, a French government-owned television station. The documents, prepared in part by the Soviet Union's Military Industries Commission, reveal that in 1979 the country's aircraft manufacturers saved an estimated $65 million in research and development costs by using pilfered technology. Soviet aircraft engineers were able to draw upon 140 "samples" of Western hardware...
Electronic linkups that let computers communicate with one another, known as networks in the U.S., are rare in the Soviet Union. In addition, Soviet computers are usually unable to exchange data by telephone because of poor- quality phone lines. Those conditions help the Soviets control the flow of information, but they stifle the free exchange of ideas that is crucial to the rapid advance of computer science. In the U.S., many refinements in programming techniques have been developed by computer buffs who trade tips through networks and electronic bulletin boards...