Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jurisdiction, Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates has canceled vacations for his 6,900 officers, who will work up to 72 hours a week protecting the Villages, policing the streets and working inside the arenas. He has spent $800,000 on new equipment, including submachine guns with silencers and shoulder-held rifles for the department's crack SWAT (special weapons and tactics) team. One new acquisition: "Felix," a radio-directed robot capable of chugging up to suspicious objects and investigating them at a safe distance from people...
Despite the scale of Los Angeles, its security forces are not large by recent Olympic standards. At the 1980 Games in Moscow, 240,000 Soviet militiamen patrolled the streets and stood shoulder to shoulder at each event. Still, officials in the City of Angels feel confident they have done everything possible to prevent disruptions. "These Games are a celebration, not an international security event," says Security Director Best. "But you can be sure we are planning for a worst possible case scenario...
...point, New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a Mondale backer, strayed by voting for a Hart-proposed tax-reform measure that Moynihan had co-sponsored in the Senate. Tully, a former Yale football tackle, lumbered over from his sideline post and put his arm on the Senator's shoulder. Sheepishly, Moynihan switched his vote...
After years of proud independence, the sudden realization of vulnerability has forced this country of 1.6 million people, about half of whom are foreigners, to turn reluctantly for help to the U.S. Kuwait publicly appealed to the U.S. for a shipment of shoulder-fired Stinger antiaircraft missiles (400 of which were recently supplied to the Saudis) to defend itself against potential Iranian air attacks on its refineries, power stations and desalination plants. Though the Reagan Administration denied the request because of anticipated congressional opposition, the U.S. is offering instead to increase Kuwait's supply of American-made Hawk missiles...
...core auto magaziens, is that bicyclists should be kept off the roads because they don't pay road-use taxes the way cars do at the gas pump or trucks do directly. The argument may sound good, but it doesn't hold water No bicycle ever eroded a road shoulder or made a pothole like an overweighted truck. Bicycling is a cheap clean alternative to driving and should be encouraged if for none other than utilitarian reasons. When possible, cities should build bike paths like those along the Charles River. But in cramped cities where the roads cannot be widened...