Word: tanks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arriving at the sensible center," contends Norman Ornstein, Catholic University's government scholar now on leave at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington. "This Government is working just about as well as any system could...
...leave Finland for Stockholm, where the film's final scenes are to be shot. Someone stole her purse and passport in New York, her temporary papers have expired, and the Polish embassy is not likely to give her another passport. She isn't worried. "I am a tank," she says, looking very untanklike. (The Swedes did, in fact, let her enter the country...
...seems to have himself in mind.) Although a black would stand virtually no chance of getting the nomination next year, Gary, Ind., Mayor Richard Hatcher argues that "winning is not the only reason to run." A working paper by the Joint Center for Political Studies, a black-run think tank in Washington, cites several advantages: giving prominence to issues of concern to blacks, increasing black voter registration and providing a bloc of delegates that could play an important role at the Democratic convention...
...cherished in details large and small. At the War Museum, a once stately mansion located near the Ho Chi Minh mausoleum, visitors gaze upon such relics as the ID cards of captured American pilots, pieces from a downed U.S. B-52 bomber, and the T-54 tank that first breached the gates of Nguyen Van Thieu's Independence Palace in Saigon in 1975. At a nearby carnival, the most popular game is the beanbag toss, in which gleeful children win pieces of candy by pelting a plywood figure of Uncle...
...complicate the investigation further, police noticed that the gas tank in Nut's rented car was empty. Days before the murder, the brakes in Nut's own car had worn through under mysterious circumstances. If he had been set up, the rented car might have also been fixed so that Nut would have been left stranded on the deserted road at the mercy of a killer masquerading as a helpful passerby. It was equally possible that Nut might have left the motor running while he jumped out of his car to make a quick, and fatal, rendezvous...