Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bell Laboratories has long been proud of its thief-resistant pay telephone, boasting that the only way to break into it was to haul the whole contraption away and work on it with sledgehammers or explosives. According to the FBI, John Clark, 49, a former Ohio machinist who wears a shoulder-length ponytail and cowboy clothes, discovered otherwise. He is the only person known to have devised a tool that can pick pay-phone locks. It afforded him a comfortable, if itinerant, living. The FBI estimates that Clark, who sometimes used the alias Billy Bell, may have stolen as much...
Manager Joe (I never played second base for the Cincinnati Reds) Morgan's hiring as "interim manager" after the All-Star break preceded the Red Sox' surge to the top of the standings. The bats of Wade Boggs, Marty Barrett, Ellis Burks and Mike Greenwell and the pitching of Roger Clemens and Bruce Hurst have been the strength of the Sox' winning this late summer. The signing of designated hitter Larry Parrish has been a gold mine for Morgan...
...have also received a lot of help from their "competitors" this year, as both the Tigers and the New York Yankees have self-destructed in the race for the Eastern Division crown. Boston once again has put itself in prime position to break its fans' hearts in the Fall Classic but maybe, just maybe...snap out of it, you're dreaming again...
...I.R.A. hopes that the mounting toll of servicemen will force Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to withdraw her country's 10,400 troops from Northern Ireland. But the latest violence has infuriated the British and increased the pressure on Thatcher to break the back of the I.R.A. once and for all. Cutting short a family vacation in Cornwall, the Prime Minister ordered a full review of her government's options and told reporters, "Nothing has been ruled...
...death," says Laurie, 31, a student in Eugene, Ore., who used to hide in the closet to escape being battered by her live-in boyfriend. Elaine, a 36- year-old hairdresser in Fort Worth, tried to split up with her boyfriend, only to have him break into her house and brutally beat...