Word: abounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lawmakers looking for a way to protect the flag have a lot of searching to do if they hope to cover all possibilities. An amendment or statute simply outlawing desecration of the U.S. flag is not going to do the job. Potential loopholes and tricky questions abound. For instance...
...array of rodeos, cattle drives, river regattas and folk fests that will culminate in November. Enthusiastic tourism officials predict that the number of out-of- state license plates on the roads will top last year's by as much as 10%. Roadside wax museums, water slides and reptile farms abound. Yet with some advance mapwork, visitors can reach well beyond familiar kitsch to centennial exhibits that speak directly to the westward movement and the nation's astonishingly recent past...
UNREST and dissatisfaction have spread wildly throughout the national media corps assigned to the White House. Editorials, columns, cartoons abound, and all harp on the lack of leadership emanating from the Oval Office...
Doveryai no proveryai, or "Trust but verify," was a favorite Reagan Administration phrase in the arms-control lexicon, but it is easier said than done. While nobody seriously proposes signing agreements that can be readily violated, opinions abound on what constitutes adequate proof that the other side is not cheating...
Inconsistencies abound. The Joker falls into a vat of toxic slime that eats the skin off his body but doesn't damage his signature deck of cards; when he gaily vandalizes some classic paintings, the film spells the museum's name two different ways; and when he starts tossing $20 million in cash onto the street, the good people of Gotham don't go into a looting frenzy and attack his perch. More important, the picture's first hour poses one big question: How will ace photographer Vicki Vale (Kim Basinger) react when she learns that Bruce is Batman...