Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...move, racing to the scene when the stands collapsed under a large crowd watching team handball (injuring six spectators), riding a helicopter over the freeways checking traffic (the gridlock that the press had predicted for a year did not materialize). To boost spirits, Ueberroth wore a different uniform each day: a bus driver's suit, a kitchen staffer's whites, a blue and gold usher's shirt. He strapped an electronic gadget on his hip that delivered printed, urgent messages...
...band) and has the nerve to describe himself as "a one-sided guy." He talks offhandedly of his associations with Einstein, Bohr and Oppenheimer and enthusiastically about discussing gambling odds with Nick the Greek. His life has been full of unforgettable characters, including his father, a salesman in the uniform business...
...khaki uniform, decorated with rows of multicolored ribbons, always set him apart from other members of the Politburo at Kremlin receptions. With the notable exception of Leonid Brezhnev, no one else in that select group could have boasted, as he could, of being a marshal of the Soviet armed forces. But for all his military trappings, Defense Minister Dmitri Fedorovich Ustinov, whose death last week at the age of 76 opened up a key post in the Kremlin hierarchy, was a civilian engineer who had never commanded soldiers on the battlefield...
Dressed in a dark tan uniform, Jaruzelski remained cool and confident throughout the nearly three-hour encounter with the press. At times he even displayed a wry sense of humor. President Reagan, the Polish leader said, deserved "a medal of achievement" from COMECON, the Soviet-led trading community, because Reagan's policy of sanctions against Poland had resulted in greater economic cooperation among Moscow's allies. Jaruzelski made it clear that he was not about to bend to pressure from Washington. Said he: "Reckoning that we will pay with concessions for favors is not realistic...
...faithfully completed," said a diplomat in Montevideo. That may be, but they are leaving behind some formidable challenges, including a 45% inflation rate, a 15% unemployment level, $5.2 billion in foreign debt, and a police and military establishment so bloated that one of every 43 Uruguayans is in uniform. Nonetheless, Sanguinetti is determined to prove that democracy can work. Said the President-elect, who will take office in March: "We hope these eleven years were nothing more than an accident...