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Those handy Veritas shield paper cups are attractive little tools we use daily to fill with milk, Coke, Diet Sprite, water or apple-cranberry juice. Or all of the above. It's very easy to pick up two or three or six of these cups, even if we could get by with...
Rurik's sons and grandsons not only united the Slavs of the Dnieper Valley but also were soon trying to expand. In 907 Prince Oleg invaded the Eastern Roman Empire with 2,000 ships, "accomplished much slaughter among the Greeks" and supposedly nailed his shield to the imperial gates of Constantinople. From this foray, the Russians brought home to their capital in Kiev an advantageous trade treaty and an even more advantageous contact with the Christian religion and sophisticated culture of Constantinople. Thus emerged the first Russian state, known as Kievan Russia...
...think he really expected to get awhole lot out of it," said Veith. He said that itis possible the dean used the discussion to"shield himself from criticism" from students
...million and as long as 15 years to move a contraceptive from the laboratory to approval for use in the U.S. What really frightens pharmaceutical companies, however, is the threat of liability suits, like the legal barrage that drove A.H. Robins into bankruptcy after its Dalkon Shield intrauterine device was found to have damaging side effects. No wonder that of the nine major U.S. firms that were conducting contraceptive research 20 years ago, only one is still doing...
...line of about 20 regular Soviet army troops in padded uniforms and helmets, carrying pale green metal shields and nightsticks, block off Lenin Prospect. Knots of Tadzhik men watch with surly stares, and the soldiers, mostly young Russian conscripts, fidget. Four APCs with idling motors guard the front of the pale brown stucco central-committee building. The day before, mobs smashed its windows and set it on fire. At one side of the debris- littered street, a soldier nonchalantly washes the bloodstains off his shield in a puddle left by melted snow...