Word: scrapped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only a millisecond flash of two blades. In America, fencing competitions are incomprehensible to outsiders. "We are a small, poor, truly amateur sport," says Stephen Sobel, secretary of the U.S. Olympic Committee and a saber fencer. "We all know each other, and usually we just keep score on a scrap of paper...
...nuclear disarmament, which would dramatically change Britain's role in NATO. Last week the party, led by Neil Kinnock, issued a 52-page defense manifesto that eliminated any remaining doubts about its program. The document recommended a policy that would remove all U.S. bases from the country, scrap the British atomic arsenal and work to make Europe a nuclear-free zone. Declared the party: "We should no longer behave as though we are a great power or the center of a global empire...
...hand of the state fell with particular heaviness on homosexuals. There came a time when a man could be arrested for wearing tight pants on the streets of Havana. Or long hair. One female guardian of the faith would pick a piece of scrap paper off the pavement, swipe it across the face of a suspected homosexual and, if it came away bearing traces of makeup, solemnly file it in his dossier. Taking a page from A Clockwork Orange, officials would show gay men nude photos, administering drugs to make them ill when the subjects were male. The prisoners, naturally...
...Navy sold eleven Gearing-class destroyers to foreign countries (Taiwan, Greece, Mexico, South Korea, Turkey and Pakistan) in 1981 and '82 for a total of $5.2 million. But, says the General Accounting Office, the ships should have been valued at $36.4 million. They were mistakenly sold at "scrap value," says the GAO, instead of for the "fair value" price...
...While touring an Army depot in Corpus Christi, Texas, investigators found 63 cartons from the Kingsville Naval Air Station labeled 200 LBS. OF ELECTRONIC SCRAP. Inside the cartons were 300 brand-new electronic circuit boards still in the manufacturer's packaging. As scrap each circuit assembly would bring a few dollars, but investigators found that the Navy is buying them...