Word: tags
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Days after the slaughter, the scene remained so ghastly that the eye instinctively sought out relics of life among the debris. Here was a dog tag bent out of shape by the blast, there a shred of a letter or birthday card from home. Scattered everywhere were photographs: of uniformed sons between doting parents, of laughing girlfriends and smiling wives, of babies newly born. The personal effects made the rows of bodies laid out on the ground and covered with blankets even more poignant, for they were reminders that each Marine pulled out of the rubble had his own private...
...grandiosely put at $12 billion. The actual cost of a tenth national holiday* is difficult to calculate. The Congressional Budget Office estimates the Federal Government would have to pay a mere $18 million in premium wages for employees who are called in to work. Some estimates put the price tag for state and local governments at $692 million and for private businesses at $4.3 billion; those figures assume they all close for the day, which they are not legally obligated...
...played on a simple 20-in. by 20-in. multicolored board with a wheel-shaped pattern. Any number from two to 24 players ask each other questions drawn from 1,000 cards; a correct answer allows the player to move. Hardly Dragon's Lair but with a price tag as high as $40 in the U.S., it is indisputably a Boardwalk of board games...
University Police Sgt Larry Fennelly said yesterday that security guards in the Yard will mark illegally parked bikes with a tag warning the owner that the bike will be immobilized with Harvard's answer to the "Denver Boot" -an additional padlock if the offense is repeated...
Lazare Kaplan has now developed a way to dog-tag diamonds. It has patented a device that uses a laser beam to inscribe gems with a trademark and seven-digit number that is visible only under magnification. The company spent ten years developing the desk-size engraving device, which, it says, performs the delicate operation without affecting either the clarity or the color of the stones. The firm has leased one of its first six machines to a Japanese company and three of them to Manhattan's Gemological Institute of America, which will inscribe stones for jewelry retailers. Says...