Word: catches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years the Japanese whaling industry, which employs more than 50,000 people, has been pleading with Tokyo not to put it out of business. At the same time, the government was being pressed by Washington to abide by the ban. Despite this pressure, the Japanese announced that they would catch 400 sperm whales in the 1984-85 season, and in early November a four-ship whaling fleet put out to sea. Two weeks ago, one of the ships returned to port with two sperm whales...
...used to be that when you went to the local sporting goods store to buy a football shirt and you liked to catch passes in neighborhood games, you bought one with the number 88. If you liked to throw them, you bought one with the number...
Social Issues. The Reagan recovery has not been universal. According to several studies the gap between rich and poor, black and white, is growing. This societal wound could create a dangerous polarization betwen classes and races. Reagan has talked vaguely about helping the poor catch up, but he has cut back on antipoverty programs and affirmative action. Congress has so far rejected his plan to create "enterprise zones" to draw business into depressed areas with tax breaks and other incentives. Reagan is not likely to suggest much else to help the left-behind in a second term unless Congress makes...
...change both with a sometimes klutzy replacement burdened by a certainly klutzy name: the High Mobility Multi-Purpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV). The manufacturer, AM General Corp., calls it the Hummer. No way, says the Army: that rhymes with bummer. It prefers "the HummVee," hardly a name likely to catch on with the average grunt...
...fees, and promised him $200,000 more after the deed was done. His mission: kill Roberto Suazo Cordova, 57, President of Honduras, before mid-November. During the civil chaos that would presumably follow the assassination, the plotters intended to seize control of the Central American state. There was one catch: unknown to them, the hired assassin was working for the Federal Bureau of Investigation...