Word: suited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...resumed a 12-year Navy career when a federal court ordered him reinstated despite his homosexuality -- which he says he discovered only after years in uniform -- asserted that he was being subjected to unusual daily uniform and haircut inspections and other close scrutiny. Former Staff Sergeant Thomas Paniccia filed suit in U.S. District Court in Arizona last week to salvage his 11-year career, which ended in October after he, like Meinhold, acknowledged his homosexuality on national television. Former Naval Academy student Joseph Steffan is suing to reverse his ouster just weeks before his scheduled graduation in 1987. Former Army...
...gays in uniform will keep their sexuality largely private. They will simply stop living in fear that someone may find out and cost them their future. Those who might wish to be flamboyant or confrontational would probably not prosper regardless of sexual preference, because their personalities do not suit a top-down command structure. For the most part, gays seek to serve for the same patriotic and pragmatic reasons that heterosexuals do, and they tend to feel as deeply committed to the military culture as to their sexuality...
...cleaning method that eschews all chemical solvent and depends instead on biodegradable soaps along with heat, steam and pressing. The experiment uses clothing volunteered by government employees in Washington and New York City. First up was EPA chief William Reilly, who turned over his regulation blue suit...
...SPEAKER, IN A SEVERE PINstripe suit, makes a plea for the prevention and treatment of drug abuse by young people. Her speech is well reasoned and delivered with confidence. But toward the end, she turns a merry, mischievous eye on her audience of more than 800 media heavyweights. "Like it or not," she said, "I have been quite a provider for the media, and now I'm asking for your help." Of course the line gets a laugh, for the public obsession with the Princess of Wales and her troubled marriage to Prince Charles has provided a windfall for London...
...them by saying that the whole event is blatant advertising for himself and listening to both their problems and their boasts. Some of the photographers who cover his wife diligently sympathize with Charles, but as one of them says, "editors won't print pictures of a man in a suit unless he's a head of state...