Word: catches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Trying to fly from Boston to New York City for a fund raiser last week, Gary Hart was grounded because of heavy fog. So the Colorado Senator raced across town to catch the Metroliner. When the train stopped in New Haven, he dashed out to telephone his office. The Metroliner pulled out before he could finish, leaving him stranded. By the time he reached Manhattan on a slower train, many of the potential givers had left. Later in the week he had to have an ingrown toenail surgically treated. In his haste to catch an airplane, he locked his keys...
...Force, John Hodge, calls it, will take a minimum of five flights. The components will include two or more cylinder-shaped modules, each with the volume of a large recreational vehicle. These will serve as working and living ("habitation modules" in NASAese) quarters for the astronauts. Solar panels will catch sunlight and turn it into electricity. Huge radiators will shed excess heat from the station's operations. In addition, there will be external pallets on which various scientific instruments can be mounted, one or more remote-controlled cranes to move equipment about and at least one docking port...
Visually, the apotheosis of TV star journalism was ABC's nuclear panel that followed The Day After. Like a Supreme Court Justice, Koppel stared down at the likes of Henry Kissinger, James Schlesinger, Robert McNamara, who tried to catch his eye or answer his questions. In New Hampshire Koppel sat democratically alongside the eight candidates, visually their equal, not their superior...
NUCLEAR FREEZE. It's something that you can get excited about. It's a cause celebre, a handy catch phrase that covers a wide range of anti-war sentiments, from pacifism to middle-of-the-road pragmatism. Yet, the wholehearted embrace of the nuclear freeze issue-with the idealistic "unilateral" or the cautioning "bilateral"-has resulted in the rover simplification of an issue that defies vague sloganeering...
...argued that better prospects for profit were necessary to create new investments in Europe. Above all, Giersch said, Europe needs to create incentives so that entrepreneurs can succeed in creating new firms and new jobs. Brittan called for a standstill on real-pay increases so that Europe can catch up competitively. Such a measure, he said, "would break the back of the unemployment problem." Chevalier confessed that one mistake to avoid repeating was France's attempt to establish an overall government-led industrial policy. This, he said, has mainly produced unnecessary official spending, especially in the nuclear-power industry...