Word: signed
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Geyser Dousers & Sign Reversers. Literary and artistic work is just a part of the swath of destruction left by carefree vacationers. They tear out bathroom fixtures and pull up flowering plants. They use blasting powder to collect specimens of Indian hieroglyphics. They feed chocolate-covered laxatives to bear cubs and dump detergent into geysers. Sometimes they block up geysers with rocks and logs. They reverse signs on trails-a form of humor that has led to at least one near fatality. In Gettysburg they love to push over monuments...
...Bjorn Borg for two hours." Inside the phlegmatic Swede, Phillips found, there is a bright, charming young man. "He's not wildly controversial or colorful," she says. "But he has a dry, self-deprecating wit, and the patience and good will of a true gentleman. He will sign hundreds of autographs and never let on to people that they happen to be intruding on his time...
...Keith Morgan and his colleagues examined 200 miners who had claimed black lung benefits. Only eight qualified by existing compensation criteria; they had somewhat impaired breathing ability. Even so, none showed any indication of progressive massive fibrosis, a stiffening of lung tissue that doctors regard as the true sign of permanent disability...
...What is amazing," notes Father Meyerson-Aksyonov, "is not that the church leadership is corrupt but that it is not so corrupt." In a possible sign of new independence, the Soviet delegates to the W.C.C. Executive Committee did not register opposition to a resolution expressing "serious concern" over the Soviet "military action" in Afghanistan, and other world conflicts...
...militarily foolish, coercive, and motivated in large part by President Carter's re-election campaign. Registration now will trim by only a handful of days the time it takes to induct Americans--on that ground alone even former Calif. Gov. Ronald Reagan opposes the plan. As a sign of "national solidarity" in the wake of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, draft registration is a part of Carter's dangerously confrontational stance of reviving the cold war. And as a part of the Carter "doctrine" of military intervention in the Persian Gulf, draft registration represents Carter's failure to enact...