Word: rare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sources: either from the Pepsi-Cola-like ads that the candidates put out-and boy, they're getting good at it!-or through little snippets that are no longer than 1 min. 20 sec. on the nightly TV news." For all their artificiality, the debates offer voters a rare chance to see the candidates in a situation they do not totally control, and to gauge how they react to pressure and deal with the unexpected...
Soon after Jeffrey Peters heard two years ago that some hunters had trapped a rare Merlin falcon, he went to Utah to pick it up. Peters, a Columbia, Mo., high school biology teacher and Cub Scout leader, is an internationally respected researcher whose specialty is birds of prey. But he did not obtain a permit from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to transport the rare bird over state lines. As a result, he was snared in an undercover sting operation aimed at poachers who illegally supply falconers in the Middle East, where the ancient sport of hunting with trained...
...display of emotion was rare for a Prime Minister who seems to glory in her reputation as Britain's "Iron Lady." Thatcher, however, was soon back in form. As further details of the attack emerged and new security measures were carried out, she refused to bow to I.R.A. threats and spoke out as firmly as ever in deploring the nation's 33-week-old coal miners' strike...
...Tickford, a design-and-engineering company, the limo is a stretch version of a Tickford Lagonda sedan. Aston Martin Spokesman Grahame Butterworth says the new car is for the "person who wants the most expensive, absolute ultimate status symbol." The company seems to believe that such buyers will be rare. It plans to manufacture just twelve Tickford Lagonda cars a year. Last week the firm had several serious inquiries and one solid buyer...
...tours of North America, though, have displayed only a fraction of its versatility: one play at a time. So the R.S.C.'s twin bill of Much Ado About Nothing and Cyrano de Bergerac, now on Broadway for a ten-week run, offers the American theatergoer a rare opportunity to see the world's top rep company in its element - an "at home" abroad...