Word: trove
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first close-up look at a recently discovered trove of exquisite Assyrian jewelry that experts are calling the most significant archaeological find since King...
...written this review about two years ago, I would have filled the page with more such examples of Reagan's evident intellectual ineptitude and brazen disregard for facts, not to mention his self-serving alibis and revisionism about prominent scandals. Speaking My Mind is a veritable treasure trove of Reagan gaffes and misstatements of the kind that filled up two volumes by Mark Green and Gail MacColl, There He Goes Again and Reagan's Reign of Error...
...trip to a Manhattan basement uncovered a true trove. There were six boxes filled with 1,500 unassembled frames and the tools to put them together. A deal was struck, and the boxes were shipped to L.A. Inside one of the treasure boxes was an itemized bill signed by the eyeglasses distributor whose half- century-old inventory they had just bought: Oliver Peoples...
RENT SUBSIDIES. A program to provide subsidized housing was turned into a treasure trove from which millions of dollars in rent subsidies, tax credits and consulting fees were doled out to prominent Republicans and a handful of rich developers. Pierce stood idly by as his executive assistant, Deborah Gore Dean, 35, turned over contracts to firms that enlisted Washington insiders as consultants. They included Dean's close friend former Attorney General John Mitchell and former Interior Secretary James Watt...
...science, who pore over newspapers and scientific treatises to unearth facts. They rely on more than 200 sources and spend a year putting together a single volume, at a bargain-basement cost of $600,000. Naturally, the authors are looking forward to the huge 1990 census, with its treasure trove of information. Updated data from that survey should begin to appear in the 1991 edition. If one obscure fact or another happens to be missing from the volume, which costs $32 hardbound and $26 in paperback, the statisticians can probably find it -- as they did when an Australian wanted...