Word: wool
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This type of exclusion in the military has a long-standing and legitimate precedent. Seemingly insignificant conditions like being allergic to wool or sleepwalking are grounds for disqualification for enlistment or commissioning. These standards constitute no value judgement, but rather a concern that such traits would make the individual less able to carry out the duties of a soldier. The military simply feels that AIDS-related symptoms would do likewise. In addition, members of our country's armed forces are entitled to many benefits, including health care. It therefore seems prudent that the military should not take individuals...
This year, 45 vendors participated, and from noon until dusk, an estimated 10,000 to 15,000 people traversed the blocked-off sections of JFK and Brattle streets. Vendors competed for the attention of the crowd by displaying such exotic wares as hand painted shirts, Indian mirrored bags, Alpaca wool sweaters, Kenya bags, cloth from Thailand, Nepal, and China, and hand-sewn bags from Colombia...
...Crimson Shop, 16 Dunster St., the undergraduate tuxedo business has been heavier than usual. "We've sold a couple of dozen tuxedos since the end of the summer," says one store employee. The Crimson Shop's tropical wool tuxedo jacket and pants set retails...
Keezer's sells both new and used tuxedos at prices substantially less than department stores. A new tropical wool jacket sells for $97.50, while new pants retail for $45. Used clothing is even less expensive; jackets are $35, and pants...
...Punta del Este last week, forming an ominously fitting backdrop for the historic meeting of government ministers. Officials from 74 countries had arrived there to confront the ill wind of protectionism, which is threatening to freeze international trade and economic growth. The ministers, who at times donned Uruguayan wool sweaters and huddled around space heaters, struggled to agree on an agenda for a multiyear series of talks that they hope will create warmer trade relationships around the world. Declared Uruguayan President Julio Maria Sanguinetti as he opened the five-day meeting: "We have to decide whether we are going...