Word: use
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...auto-insurance companies offer discount rates to drivers over 65 because they tend to drive less frequently and to avoid hazardous situations like rush-hour traffic and bad weather. Another issue is compassion: depriving many senior citizens of their licenses would amount to robbing them of their independence. "The use of a car is particularly important to older citizens," says Florida Congressman Claude Pepper, 88. "It's a vital link to the outside world...
...When the Queen of England is over in this country," says Trump, illustrating once again the way he is, "they call my office to find out if they can use the helicopter because it's the safest helicopter...
Barry, a third-term mayor who began as a civil rights activist, has been beset by charges of drug use, consorting with drug dealers, misuse of public funds and adultery. Barry not only tainted his office with scandals, but apparently he has been ignoring his duties...
Consequently, STAR students use a variety of props. With 3-D models of the universe, they can visualize just how the light of the sun on the moon produces different moon phases. They make their own telescopes from cardboard, paper-towel cylinders and plastic lenses. (The result is a telescope more powerful than the one first used by Galileo.) They record in journals the movement of the moon and sun and chart the arrivals and departures of the constellations...
...bought frankincense and myrrh. Here Arabian trade routes crisscrossed, bringing exotic spices, precious cloths and treasures from the East. Here too in 1967 devout Marxists won independence for their moonscape land at the mouth of the Red Sea. After 128 years of British colonial rule, they were determined to use the precepts of socialist orthodoxy to yank a remote Arab nation into the 20th century. The People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, or simply South Yemen, set up a Moscow- style government and forged close ties with its mentor...