Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will give Reagan credit where he deserves it. Our new rapprochement with the Soviet Union--and the accompanying INF treaty--is healthy. The evil empire has become the nice family down the block...
There were other forebodings of environmental disaster. In the U.S. it was revealed that federal weapons-making plants had recklessly and secretly littered large areas with radioactive waste. The further depletion of the atmosphere's ozone layer, which helps block cancer-causing ultraviolet rays, testified to the continued overuse of atmosphere-destroying chlorofluorocarbons emanating from such sources as spray cans and air- conditioners. Perhaps most ominous of all, the destruction of the tropical forests, home to at least half the earth's plant and animal species, continued at a rate equal to one football field a second...
...BLDG W VU The world's tallest skyscraper, Chicago's 110-story Sears Tower, went on the block for an asking price of at least $1 billion. Fearing corporate raiders, the giant retailer decided to sell the building to raise cash (its original cost in 1972: $200 million...
...bustling field. Ray-Ban sent 500 pairs of sunglasses to director Oliver Stone for his new feature, Born on the 4th of July. A scene in Cocoon: The Return was reshot so that Quaker Instant Oatmeal could be displayed more prominently. Companies are now lined up around the block trying to get their backhoes, champagne, reclining chairs and running shoes into the movies...
...first week of January. Instead, with fear and trembling, I peered into the abyss: a blank daily entry for New Year's Eve and then no more. Nothingness. Maybe I could take the cowardly way out and try to recycle the pages from last January. But there in big block letters on the top of Jan. 4, 1988, was the chilling inscription: "In Iowa with Gephardt." Even masochism has its limits; no sane man would choose to relive the Iowa caucuses. The long-feared existential crisis was at hand; I would have to buy a new desk diary...