Word: acti
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still fit and trim at 81, Spock keeps up the acti vist life, lobbying and demonstrating against nuclear weapons. He accepts dozens of speaking engagements a year, three-quarters of them political, and he says he is willing to visit Nicaragua if it would help ease U.S. hostility to the Sandinista regime. He and his second wife, Mary Morgan, 41, spend the winters aboard their boat Carapace in the British Virgin Islands and most of the rest of the year in Maine and Arkansas...
...adviser, David Garth, spent an estimated $150 million in a vain effort to make voters forget the past shortcomings of the Social Christians and concentrate on the future. The result: not only did Lusinchi win a projected 57% of the 7.7 million votes cast, vs. 34.5% for Caldera, but Actión Democrática also gained comfortable majorities in both houses of Venezuela's 249-member Congress...
...firm called Acti-Vision makes $23 cartridges that fit Atari's console, and will soon make them for Intellivision. Acti-Vision's Laser Blast is a good fast-reflex game in which the player himself is the space invader. Its Tennis has a couple of good illusions?the ball bounces realistically on the court?but no effective simulation of hitting the ball, and no distinction between serves and ground strokes. Like too many cartridges for all three systems, Tennis is likely to be played twice and forgotten...