Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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QUOTE OF NOTE: "When you see a tank, you obviously see a horrible, destructive instrument of war...I see a deterrent, security, something that will ensure the stability of peace...
BORN: Oct. 1, 1953, Brooklyn, N.Y. EDUCATION: St. Olaf College, B.A., 1975; Vermont Law School, J.D., 1981 FAMILY: Husband, Thomas Trunzo; two children RELIGION: Protestant MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Radio-talk-show host; think-tank director; professor POLITICAL CAREER: New Hampshire House, 1985-93; Democratic nominee for Governor, 1992 ADDRESS: P.O. Box 2694, Concord...
...fact, my thoughts had by then turned to Michael Dukakis. I imagined him watching in his den in Massachusetts, wearing that helmet he wore in the unfortunate picture of him peering out of a tank during the 1988 campaign. Presumably, he wears it on debate nights, the way some veterans get out their old Eisenhower jackets on D-day anniversaries. He's thinking, as he often does during presidential debates, what he should have said when Bernard Shaw asked him how he'd feel about punishment if someone raped his wife...
...urban setup like we have here [in Cambridge], it puts people in a metal and glass tank, making them virtually unapproachable," Riley says...
With the bomb theory fading for lack of hard evidence, the focus of the NTSB investigation has returned to mechanical failure and the possibility that a spark, despite built-in safeguards, may have somehow caused the center fuel tank to explode. Again, the problem is evidence: there is none. Computer modeling--or the simulated explosion of a retired jumbo jet--may be required to buttress the theory...