Word: center
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...admitted that he would fly in almost any weather. "When your time comes to go down, then you go down," he explained. With similar stoicism, he has learned to cope with political buffeting. Asked where he stands in the political spectrum, he replied without hesitation, "Right of center" ? words that would not have been uttered by a leading Democrat in a big industrial state a few years...
...give me four more years. I don't say everything is perfect. I'm a human being. I make mistakes. I change my mind. But I listen to you and I get things done." Later in the afternoon, Brown joined some black politicians at a meeting in a shopping center in Riverside. "Did you watch the game?" he asked as he shook hands. "The Dodgers won." Brown, in fact, had not watched the game, but he has mastered the knack of small talk. While his mostly black audience sipped cocktails and soft drinks and ate guacamole, Brown made his familiar...
...monkey-skin skirts and black feather headdresses swayed rhythmically, rattling anklets made of Coca-Cola bottletops and ululating cries of praise. Naval battalions boomed out a 21-gun salute, and there was an ear-cracking, low-flying aeronautics display by fighters of the Kenya air force. At the center of the colorful hosannas, a leather-bound Bible in his hands, was Daniel Torotich arap Moi, 54, who swore to serve the people of Kenya "faithfully and impartially" as the country's second President and successor to the late Jomo Kenyatta. The country's Anglican archbishop presided over...
Shanghai, the world's largest metropolitan area (pop. 10.8 million), is China's leading trading center and second biggest industrial city. Gone are the 60,000 foreigners who ran the city as a fiefdom for a century. Gone too are the singsong girls and the 30,000 prostitutes who once plied the streets, and the opium dens and the gambling halls. The people are louder and livelier and more independent than the prim Pekingese. Shanghai has the vibrancy and hustle of New York. It boasts 140 round-the-clock (jih-ye) shops and eating places. Shanghai winks...
Five years in building, MMT incorporates many design innovations. All six mirrors, plus a small .8-meter (30-in.) guide telescope in the center of the cluster, are mounted on a single Y-shaped yoke that tilts and turns like a gun mount. Rather than a traditional dome, MMT's designers opted for a cheaper rectangular Y OF ARIZONA building that rotates with the telescope. A small moat keeps out dust and stray snakes, scorpions and rats. Yet MMT'S most unusual feature is its internal laser tracking system. It enables all six telescopes to follow the same...