Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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George Washington, the incredible shrinking man on the dollar bill, warned against entangling foreign alliances. What would George think today? The world is knotted with defense treaties, trade agreements, international monetary plans; and each year $100 billion leaves his country in a cloud of imported oil smoke. This thunderhead of new wealth floats around the globe, threatening inflationary chaos wherever it hovers. Will it descend on gold, Beverly Hills real estate, Kansas farm land, New York coops...
...lifted off. "The ice was broke up so bad we couldn't get back to the boats," Don Van Dyke recalls. They stay put, afraid that the thickening weather will keep them from being seen. The big red copter whirls down through the sleet, sending up a cloud of snow as it hovers, barely touching the ice, 30 ft. from the fishing shanty. Chuck and Don and three other fishermen scramble aboard...
...home-grown agencies by opening a New York edition of his Paris-based firm, Brooke embodies "the perfect synthesis of everything that will be successful in the '80s: a little bit of sex and a little bit of innocence; a lot of talent and intelligence but a little cloud of scandal around it; a lot of distinction and yet the warmth of youth...
...strained charm. It is easy to snap off and tune out, but it is not so simple to elude real-life blather. Try to get away from it all, and soon a stage-struck airline captain will be monologuing about terrain miles below and half-obscured by the cloud cover. Go to the dentist, and the procedure is all but ordained: thumbs fill the mouth, the drill starts to whine, and a voice begins to express all those unpalatable political opinions...
...bearing gifts," says St. Ronald, "A bagful of Christmas mirth: Toy planes, toy soldiers, toy tanks, toy bombs--Billions of dollars in worth. I'll put on a mammoth Christmas show, With lights and flashes and caroling loud And as the thrilling finale I'm planning a mushroom-shaped cloud...