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Beginning in about twelve months, new U.S. paper currency will contain a thin polyester stripe bearing the legend USA ONE for $1 bills, USA FIVE for $5 bills, and so on. Called a security thread, the stripe is transparent and will not reflect light. Thus it cannot be reproduced by a photocopier. Around the portraits on the new bills will be letters too tiny for copy machines to pick up that say UNITED STATES OF AMERICA...
...examined Washington influence peddling before. In 1978, as a staff writer in New York City, he wrote a cover story on the power of lawyers, including those in the nation's capital. Observes Beckwith: "Washington lawyers were the hot item of that day, when they helped businessmen thread the mazes of Government regulation. Today an influence seeker needs someone to help him fight for a piece of a shrinking federal pie. Those lawyers have had the game taken away from them...
...which this fabulous piece of cotton is just a small part, springs into New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art with a vitality and dignity well beyond that of most exhibitions of clothing. All is ravishment: a child's coat made of silver fabric embroidered with gold thread; a woman's costume of veil, tunic and pajamas that plays with sunset shades of gold and violet. Fashion and society are the prevailing standards that squeeze museum costume shows tight, but "Costumes of Royal India" celebrates an ongoing tradition--of craft, of coloration, of symbolic dress and functional wear. Diana...
UCLA was once synonomous with winning. The Celtics have always been synonomous with winning. And one thread runs common throughout Walton's career...
...thin thread by which all this hangs is the immediate and unconditional release of (imprisoned African National Congress Leader) Nelson Mandela. State President P.W. Botha has got to release Mandela unconditionally if he wants to save the situation. I believe President Botha is a sincere man, despite what has happened. It is a good quality, but in this situation it is not enough. I don't think he has the courage to see his sincerity through...