Word: embarrassments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...answers to these questions would probably embarrass the nation's lumbering military bureaucracy. But more important as far as the politics of registration is concerned is the realization that regardless of official rhetoric, the president views registration as a convenient saber to rattle at the Soviets, much in the same way Carter did in 1980. Growing European uneasiness over American inconsistency in international affairs only encouraged Reagan further, according to some White House aides...
During every Harvard home game, spectators may enter a half-court shooting contest sponsored by Crimson Travel. Mr. Henry Zimmerman '25, Harvard's widely recognized Most Loyal Fan of the Century, chooses three names from a cardboard box, and three people usually embarrass themselves by tossing airballs...
...desperate to regain their credibility. "The society did not collapse," says Bertram Brown, a terrorism consultant for California's Rand Corp. "Thus they had to leap the firebreak to internationalism by kidnaping an American." Adds Franco Ferracuti, a Rome University professor of criminology: "The Red Brigades want to embarrass the U.S., to undermine NATO and, not incidentally, to reestablish themselves as a force to be reckoned with...
...artist's expertise does not embarrass Thai antique dealers, who often pass off Yas' reproductions as originals. While the sculptor's work is so highly regarded that he charges between $1,000 and $2,000 for his best stone figures, the dealers who peddle them as antiques can ask-and get-up to ten times as much...
...first reaction by Washington to the assassination of Egypt's President Anwar Sadat was to increase the size of a U.S. training exercise in the Egyptian desert scheduled for November. Operation Bright Star is being scaled down, in apparent recognition that so suffocating a U.S. embrace could only embarrass Sadat's successor...