Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Erika had a child, Bettina. Neither mother nor daughter has seen McCartney since, but Bettina's lawyers recently brought suit against him, asserting a claim to some of her father's money. The ex-Beatle has reportedly agreed to a $3 million settlement. Bettina, who used to collect all of McCartney's records, wants to follow in his career footsteps. "I have won a few talent-spotting competitions," she says. "But these days that doesn't mean too much." As for a little help from her dad, well, it seems that the $3 million will have...
...instantly clear that opportunities for misuse were endless. The three of them roughed out the National Survival Game almost instantly. There would be a forested tract of about 100 acres and up to twelve competitors stalking one another through the underbrush with Nel-Spots. The first assassin to collect a flag from each of the four flag stations would win, provided he escaped being shot...
...retarded. Among its patients are Lebanese, Palestinians, Maronites, Druze, Sunnis, Shi'ites, Jews; all Lebanon is here. An Armenian lies curled up on the second-floor landing. His stained white shirt hangs outside his blue pants. He wears a gray suit jacket, even in this heat. Flies collect on his bare feet. He pays no attention. He wants to sleep. "There was nothing," he explains when asked about the bombing. He is said to have gone wild when the shelling started...
...made by International Business Machines, Hitachi's chief American rival (Hitachi had $1.4 billion in computer revenues last year, IBM $24 billion). But when Hitachi Senior Engineer Kenji Hayashi and two colleagues showed up at Glenmar's six-room suite in a Santa Clara office building to collect the secret documents, they found themselves surrounded by a squad of FBI agents, who handcuffed them and charged them with conspiracy to transport stolen property in foreign commerce...
...Peak National Observatory, near Tucson, astronomers say the brightness of stars has been reduced by 40%, and volcanic dust has created garish sunsets over wide areas of the Northern Hemisphere. Says Atmospheric Physicist James Pollack, of NASA's Ames Research Center, which has used U-2 aircraft to collect samples of El Chichón's dust: "This is the biggest volcanic cloud we have had in the last two decades...