Word: armed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...future is most uncertain for the empire's other big arm: the Hughes Medical Institute, which operates from unimposing quarters in Miami. Hughes set up the tax-free foundation in 1953 and said that he would ultimately will his fortune to it. As a start, he gave the institute his Hughes Aircraft Co. The company is estimated to have earned about $30 million last year on sales of $1.4 billion, mostly to the Pentagon and CIA for highly advanced satellites and guided weaponry, including target-seeking "smart" bombs...
...Atlanta, the Braves' new owner, a tough-minded, salty-tongued communications czar and yachtsman named Ted Turner, signed up the game's most sought-after right arm in a reported $1 million deal engineered by-of all people-a fan who took the negotiating authority upon himself. With one stroke of the pen, the moribund Braves had a bright new look. The signee was a handsome, 30-year-old, bubble-gum-chewing pitcher named Andy Messersmith, a free spirit and free agent whose victorious legal battle against baseball's "reserve clause" was reshaping the entire sport...
...these disturbances, a professional police force was created, modeled after the new London police. In 1863 this force, aided by the militia, put down the Boston Draft Riot; during its course, the previously unarmed police had to acquire weapons and, in its aftermath, decided, with legislative approval, to arm themselves on a regular basis...
Wagner plays a latter-day Wonder Woman who became the world's first bionic woman after she was nearly killed in a skydiving accident; doctors rebuilt her, piece by voluptuous piece, with 80-m.p.h. legs, a right arm that can shatter trees and an ear capable of hearing leaves rustle in the next county. Between classes at a military base in Ojai, Calif., where she is a schoolteacher, she moonlights as an intelligence agent...
...Margaux' real sister, Mariel) invites her music teacher Gordon Stuart home to meet Chris. Stuart (played by Chris Sarandon, Al Pacino's haunted, hysterical male wife in Dog Day Afternoon) composes modern music. He comes to Chris's apartment with a cassette of his screeching electronic creations under his arm, moog pieces which he plays for her with the tentative devotion of a supplicant offering a sacrifice to a goddess. She's bored, her attention wanders, she takes a phone call. Tantalized by her public image and enraged by her indifference, Stuart rapes her. His ego is composed...