Word: shielding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...counsel ruled that an antiquated passage in the state constitution protected Harvard from any sort of regulation. Since that time, University officials have said repeatedly that they do not think the constitution protects them from zoning requirements, and that in any case they will not use it as a shield. It is difficult to understand, then, why Harvard-employed lobbyist Roger Moore testified in opposition to the University's inclusion with other educational institutions under city zoning codes...
...naked, sun-baked disc of a stage, designed by John Napier, is shaped like an inverted shield. The prophet Calchas has told King Agamemnon that the thousand ships becalmed in the harbor at Aulis will receive no favoring wind to retrieve Helen and ravage Troy unless he makes a blood sacrifice of his daughter Iphigenia. With passive fatalism, Agamemnon sends a duplicitous letter to his wife Clytemnestra asking her to bring Iphigenia to Aulis on the pretext that she is to be given in marriage to Achilles, supreme hero-in-arms...
...skirts and dashed to death from the city's topless towers. One of the most wrenching scenes in all of Greek tragedy is shatteringly performed by Whitelaw when her little boy is taken and returned as a tiny corpse in the shell of Hector's shield...
...five-minute drive to work. Normally, she would make this trip three hours earlier, eat a cafeteria breakfast and start her job at 6 a.m. on the fifth floor of the Dodge Main Assembly Plant, putting glue on doors, cleaning out loose bolts and putting a plastic water shield and two pieces of felt into passing Aspens and Volares...
...February 1979, after the Shah's fall. Brzezinski proposed that the U.S. form a protective umbrella over North Africa, the Middle East and Southwest Asia. It would include signed understandings with several governments in the area?at the very least with Egypt, Jordan and Israel?and an American military shield that would stretch as far west as Morocco. If Carter is still thinking along those lines, the shield now has been extended as far east as Pakistan...