Word: strip
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...walls," she squeals as she caresses a black marble railing. Her friend Maryann Scofield, caught up in the delirium, chimes in, "You've got to see it. Marble and mirrors and brass. We want to meet Trump." Zborey interrupts. "Gold," she says, reaching down to touch a decorative strip of brass. "I see gold. I don't know what...
Quote of the Week: "I just said to myself, `When I get the ball next time, I'm going to hold on to it, hold on tight.' [Columbia was] trying to strip the ball from us all day."--Harvard running back Jim Reidy after fumbling on the squad's opening drive against Columbia Saturday. Reidy didn't fumble again and went on to rush for 139 yards in the Crimson's 26-10 victory...
...Hassan said that prerequisites for formal talks include the participation of Palestinians, either through the PLO or Jordan, as well as the with drawal of Israel from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Only these measures can bring about "the exercise of the right to national self-determination," Al Hassan said...
...traffickers "to the ends of the earth." If the Upper Huallaga Valley in Peru can be considered one of the ends of the earth -- and as an area of mostly trackless jungle, it qualifies -- the President was speaking literally. Today two U.S. State Department bulldozers are cutting a landing strip on the banks of the Huallaga River 300 miles northeast of Lima. From this base, the Peruvian National Police and U.S. drug-enforcement agents will mount paramilitary strikes on the valley's coca-processing centers and the airstrips used to fly out cocaine...
Friedman was also on hand at the birth of the intifadeh, the stone-throwing rebellion by young Palestinians living in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Here was David vs. Goliath with a vengeance, shown nightly throughout much of the world on the evening news. But Friedman argues that the myth -- stones triumphing over might -- threatens to bury reality. Israel will not be brought down by slingshots; tanks and troops will not quash resentments. If anything is to be accomplished, a photogenic revolution must give way to hard bargaining...