Word: catches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Batman summer superhype has caught up with Las Cruces police chief Ron Axtell. Warner Communications demanded that the city stop using the Batman , logo on its ambulance-like BATmobile. The vehicle is used to catch drunk drivers, and its popularized name really stands for the breath alcohol-testing unit...
...example, in Japanese signature seals, and wedding ornaments are fashioned from the shells of endangered hawksbill turtles. Japanese fishermen have drawn impassioned criticism for their use of huge drift nets across vast expanses of the Pacific. The nets, which are up to 40 miles wide, are intended to catch squid and tuna, but also entangle many other kinds of fish as well as seabirds and marine mammals. Roger McManus, president of the Washington-based Center for Marine Conservation, has gone so far as to call the Japanese "environmental terrorists...
...have committed to improving the passing game with strong-armed quarterback Tony Eason and the drafting of tall, fleet wide receiver Hart Lee Dykes. New England tight ends received quite a jolt when they reported to mini-camp this summer and were told that they would be expected to catch passes as well as block this year...
...today, fight change which is so slow and insidious that it renders slogan-writing nearly impossible. What songs do we sing, what catch phrase tops our letters...
This joint commercial venture between historic enemies takes place in one of the earth's chillier, less hospitable locales. And when a huge net full of an incoming catch drops the body of Zina Patiashvili onto the deck of the Polar Star, the whole enterprise becomes icier still. Patiashvili had been a popular member of the Polar Star work force, dishing up food in the mess and making herself available to a goodly number of male comrades on board and, so rumor has it, to more than a few visiting American fishermen...