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WASHINGTON--The prosecutor in Michael K. Deaver's perjury trial said yesterday the former presidential aide's conviction is only a "thumb in the dike" against the flood of influence peddling in Washington...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deaver Prosecutor Attacks Lack of Ethics | 12/18/1987 | See Source »

Seymour said that "until the attitudes of government leaders change, there is little that prosecutors can do except put a thumb in the dike...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deaver Prosecutor Attacks Lack of Ethics | 12/18/1987 | See Source »

...Keller is able to play, there will be a battle between him and sophomore Malcolm Glover, who actually stole Keller's starting job early in the season before he too got injured, breaking his thumb against Brown...

Author: By Neil A. Cooper, | Title: Penn QB Keller Recovering | 12/5/1987 | See Source »

...BOOK is jam-packed with fascinating rules of thumb from a bygone age. Read Iacocca's book and you'll get nothing but attitude and abstraction. Iacocca would probably tell you to keep your money in real estate or mutual funds. But poker player Johnny Moss has more practical advice: keep your cash in a wad with a rubber band around it--"so's you can throw it in the bushes case you're hijacked...

Author: By Paul R. Simms, | Title: An Antidote for Hard Work | 12/2/1987 | See Source »

...visionary team works toward its goal one body part at a time. Right now the staff is concentrating its efforts on perfecting a computer that will imitate human hand-eye coordination. The robot's hand has two fingers and a thumb, each with its own motor, and fingertips that contain high-resolution tactile sensors. Lab experiments test the hand's ability in tasks like lifting and grasping objects...

Author: By Teresa A. Mullin, | Title: Of Microchips and Men | 11/19/1987 | See Source »

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