Word: project
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Michael S. Dukakis declared yesterday that "the party's over for underage drinkers," kicking off Project Stop, the state's new campaign against the use of fake identification to purchase alcohol...
...found too good to accept. "The Klan is atypical of the groups that have been involved with the program," explained James Sughrue, a DOT official. No other volunteers, except a cub-scout pack considered too young to be on the roads, had been turned down for the highway-cleanup project. Rockey Chapman, head of the klavern, admitted he wanted "that sign to advertise my group." He asked the state branch of the American Civil Liberties Union to sue for a reversal of the rejection. The A.C.L.U. was expected to do so on the ground that the KKK was the victim...
Shaving may be a mundane activity, but the razor industry takes it as seriously as a moon launch. Last week industry leader Gillette unveiled the result of a ten-year development project. Called Sensor, the new razor has twin spring-mounted blades that individually contour to the vagaries of the user's skin. The high-tech face scraper has 22 patents, 13 moving parts, platinum-hardened chromium blades, and is welded with lasers...
...Alda in a gloriously fashioned comic performance). He offers Cliff a sinecure: filming a documentary that will make Lester look like a philosopher-king among the pompous nitwits who produce prime-time TV. Cliff agrees, but because he tries to turn Lester's story into a truthful expose, the project collapses. Along the way he loses the woman he loves (Mia Farrow), as well as a serious film to which he had been profoundly committed...
William Cornelius Van Horne, painter, poker player, collector of Japanese porcelain, was probably the man most responsible for the most beautiful train ride in the western hemisphere. It was 1881 when he took over construction of the trans-Canadian railway, a project that consumed several fortunes, 4 1/2 years of agonizing labor and an untold number of lives. "Since we can't export the scenery," he once said, expressing a frontiersman's thirsty love of the land, "we'll have to import the tourists...