Word: weighing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Snake bracelets, gold beads, earrings, shields and golden vessels that weigh two kilos apiece just a few of the other things that invite one, but perhaps the gold and silver rhyta are the highlight of the show. These are drinking horns in the shape of animal or human heads,and they were created in the 6th and 5th centuries B.C. when Greek influence on Thracian art was strongest. One golden rhyton is decorated with reliefs of Hera, Artemis and Apollo around the rim and a billy goat at the base--the wine gushes from a spout in the goat...
...office in New York that allegedly carried out the illegal operations against the Weathermen. The Kearney indictment provoked an outcry from within the FBI as agents took to the streets of Manhattan to protest the unprecedented action, and the spectre of similar demonstrations by disgruntled CIA operatives will undoubtedly weigh heavily on Bell when he prepares to hand down the final word on the Helms case...
...watched Punjab and the Asp contrive a properly nasty comicstrip zoom for the malefactors. It was a fun little game, and Daddy played it just right, cool and cunning and with just the faintest suggestion that he was enjoying the hell out of the whole show. Then he'd weigh anchor and take everybody over to South Africa to watch the natives yank a few more million out of his diamond mines. A real character, that Daddy Warbucks. Too bad he wasn't real...
...Administration jumped off to an excellent start with its allies. Within days of the Inauguration, Vice President Walter Mondale was visiting West European and Japanese leaders, assuring them that Washington would weigh their opinions when formulating policy; a few months later, Carter was charming and impressing fellow heads of government at the London summit. The allies have also been heartened by Washington's pledge to bolster NATO's conventional forces, and they generally favor Carter's rather relaxed, flexible approach to Eurocommunism. Now many allied governments are troubled by Carter. European Community leaders have sent him a message warning that...
...panel's recommendations must still run the usual bureaucratic gauntlet, including a public airing, and could be modified after drug companies weigh in with their objections. But the FDA seems determined to deal with the national headache of analgesic misuse. As the FDA's Kennedy put it: "Consumers must be assured that the drugs they buy are rationally formulated with safe and effective ingredients and labeled and advertised with information that is complete, honest and understandable...