Word: shielding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chief duty in Laos was conducting press briefings. "The function of a press attache is to shield his superiors from the press," he says, explaining the "better me than the ambassador" philosophy...
...Bros., the second largest American soapmaker, sued the Customs Service last week to block U.S. sales of goods produced by its sister company, London-based Lever Bros. Ltd. (Both are subsidiaries of Unilever, a British-Dutch consortium.) In 1983 the American Lever Bros. was enjoying splashy sales of its Shield deodorant soap and Sunlight dishwashing detergent when products with the same names began appearing at discount prices. Manufactured by the British Lever Bros., the soaps had been shipped to the U.S. by unauthorized middlemen. The U.S. firm complains that the British products have proved unsuited to American tastes and have...
...Court, all the participants are played by actors, and the proceedings -- including the final decision by Judge William D. Burns Jr., a Los Angeles municipal-court commissioner -- are totally scripted to reflect the outcome of similar real-life cases. The Judge, with a title character played by Actor Bob Shield and melodramatic scenes outside the courtroom, often seems scarcely different from a daytime soap...
Since President Reagan announced his desire to develop a "peace shield" which would end the threat of nuclear war, a barrage of rhetoric and a glaring lack of information have led to questions about the feasibility and desirability of SDI. Now a panel of the nation's most distinguished scientists have spent 18 months investigating the program. Their report promises to be the most thorough and impartial assessment of SDI to date. But the Reagan Administration, for some odd reason, wants to censor some of their report...
...could see in Reykjavik that it came down to SDI," the President recounted. "I made a proposal to (Gorbachev) that if we got the SDI shield then, with the Soviet Union sharing that, we could eventually sign a treaty to eliminate all ballistic missiles...