Word: shields
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...summer by ejecting Pakistan-backed guerrillas from the Kargil region of Kashmir. And the early election wasn't brought about by popular discontent; the BJP government lost its majority when a controversial actress at the head of regional party had quit the coalition after Vajpayee refused to shield her from corruption charges - a situation that engendered sympathy for the BJP among the meager 56 percent of voters who bothered to go to the polls...
...that have the idea of a nuclear "umbrella" edging closer to approval by the Clinton administration. For TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson, it?s a dubious triumph of lowered expectations. "It?s not Reagan?s ?Star Wars,' which was space-based," he says. "This is the so-called ?thin shield,? which consists of a smaller amount of interceptors [100] from a single site, rather than a full umbrella. Technically, it?s easier to build, but it also wouldn?t defend against a full-scale assault...
...many of the archives' quirkier possessions, like a full set of Wedgworth china patterned with the Radcliffe shield, are buried in the depths of the library and are only seen by the occasional ambitious researcher...
Instead, we could take a little bit out of that multi-billion dollar nest egg and donate what we could call the Crimson Cup. We'd make it big and shiny. Inscribe on it the names of our undergraduate Houses. Smack that Veritas shield right on it's face. Then put it up for grabs...
Dining hall checkers began implementing the new policy last week by placing the small square stickers emblazoned with the Adams House shield on the lower right corner of House residents' ID cards...