Word: clock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could find out why, they could perhaps develop an AIDS treatment. Such a solution is a long way off, though, and the prognosis for AIDS victims remains grim. Their comforts must be derived chiefly from the effort to live as normally as possible in the face of a ticking clock -- an exhausting enough business without prejudice or the threat of quarantine. "It's great," said Ryan White when asked how he liked being back in school, "but it's a long...
...think we should be issuing edicts that everyone should be back on campus at 10 o'clock at night," Government Department Chairman Robert D. Putnam said...
...want to be back in their district politicking, they were busy on-camera deep into August (television coverage now gives them priceless visibility back home), striking attitudes about South Africa and Supreme Court Justices and crafting the new tax bill. Over at the White House, feeding the 7 o'clock news is taken most seriously. The attitude is that if you don't divert the press with themes of your own, the press will be asking questions you don't want to talk about. So, in the weeks before Reagan began his real vacation in Santa Barbara, his press aides...
...fighting ranks from 6,000 to 17,000. Four C-141 transports loaned by the U.S. Air Force are bringing in reinforcements and supplies, while 36 helicopters fight the blazes from above. Tent cities are springing up in places with names like Sled Springs, near major conflagrations. Around the clock, caravans of yellow school buses deposit scores of yellow-shirted fire fighters. Senior citizens in Enterprise, Ore., spend their mornings stuffing 1,800 beef and ham ^ sandwiches for the blaze busters' lunch. Sophisticated technology, made up of computers, radar, video cameras and satellite dishes -- dubbed the "mousetrap infrared system" -- helps...
...overestimating the value of the MGM film library by as much as $500 million. The archive contains a lot more, and less, than Clark Gable and Judy Garland classics. Says one analyst: "They are the kind of movies you might see on local television at 2 o'clock in the afternoon...