Word: carly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Across the country, more and more Americans are logging on to computer information and service networks and discovering an ever enlarging cornucopia at their fingertips. Today anybody with a computer, a modem and a deep line of credit can buy an airline ticket to Cleveland, rent a Hertz car at the airport, book a room at the Sheraton, buy a novel from Waldenbooks, check the closing prices on Wall Street and purchase 100 shares of IBM--without ever getting up from the computer...
...nursery of totalitarianism. Brodsky elaborates the point in "A Guide to a Renamed City" by contrasting two monuments. On one side of the Neva stands the "Bronze Horseman," the equestrian statue of Peter the Great. Across the river is the figure of Lenin on top of an armored car carved of stone...
...THIS IS A riot gun," says 29-year police veteran Robert "I'm the NRA" Kliesmet--a man with the law and order look written all over him. He brandishes his gun as he leans against his police car--a man who obviously revels in his machismo...
...terrorist-passenger checked in late at Cairo and was driven to the Boeing 727 by a TWA official in a company car, according to Egyptian security officials. One official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the passenger list was checked after the bombing and no suspicions were raised about any passenger...
...friend could have taken someone with him. What if on that night several years ago, he had wrecked the car of the sober driver he collided with and not the other way around...