Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is nothing approaching proof, however, and the State Department is outraged by the film's thesis. It has taken the film seriously enough to issue an unusual three-page statement disputing I its major points. After an eight-year investigation, it said, "no light was shed upon the circumstances of [Horman's] death and little upon the circumstances of his disappearance...
With 16 places scored, the aquamen are well ahead of the 162 points they tallied on the first day at Dartmouth last year. That's bad news for Assistant Coach Ken Oberg, who has promised to shed his golden locks if Harvard breaks by 20 points the scoring record of 583 point they set is Hanover...
...early January, when the coaching staff told her to shed seven pounds by the end of the month. Hall began a rigorous dieting and exercise program, but she failed to drop the weight...
These party moderates, though by no means a bloc of dogmatists, agree on a range of proposals that, taken together, constitute a bold departure from any of the conventional political wisdoms currently holding away. Gary Hart shed his radical image left over from his days as George McGovern's presidential campaign manager to emerge as a careful, skeptical, concerned student of America's defense needs. He contends that the American armed forces rely far too much on expensive, impractical high-technology weaponry too complicated to operate and obsolete before it can come into general use. His solution avoids the naive...
Rusk said he had "no forebodings" about what the tapes may reveal, adding: "I doubt that the transcripts will shed very much new historical light." McNamara noted that all important meetings involve the presence of an official transcriber, so "I knew damn well that a record was being made of everything I said." Compared with the Nixon tapes, he predicted, "you won't hear many expletives...