Word: seals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bushes and Clintons widens in the Oval Office, where Bush's muted blue haven has been transformed into what one Washington sage calls "the Redskin Room" because of its use (unwitting, one assumes) of the N.F.L. home team's burgundy and gold colors in the upholstery. The Presidential Seal all but leaps out from Clinton's deep blue carpeting...
...Shipping News (Scribner's; 337 pages; $20) is set on the coast of Newfoundland. Proulx made seven trips there, learning the ways in which locals and newcomers use language, seeing how the tight community life falls apart in thin times, as the old occupations of cod fishing and seal hunting fail...
Champi found Pete Varney '71 in the end zonefor the two-point conversion to seal Harvard's29-29 "victory." The elated Harvard fans stormedthe field as the Yale players retreated, stillundefeated but now tied for the coveted Ivy Leaguetitle...
...Ablott's team from the Los Angeles County sheriff's arson detail was there, as were police from other afflicted counties. So were FBI agents, whose Washington labs have the capacity to analyze the letter for everything from handwriting style to the DNA of the saliva used to seal the envelope...
...dissatisfied with your municipal water supply, you can always buy bottled water. But it is not always free of contaminants either (even Perrier had that little problem with the chemical benzene). Look for a seal of approval from NSF International, an Ann Arbor, Michigan, company that certifies bottled water as safe. Unfortunately, NSF does not analyze all brands...