Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Finding telltale signs of a man on the run is no job for a novice. Garrison, who spotted the trail that eventually led to Ray's seizure, can tell approximately how long ago some underbrush was shoved aside or crushed by men's feet, simply by the color of the brush-a fresh break has almost no discoloration, but an older break is brownish. Garrison can also determine if a convict has a partner traveling with him by noting that a twig has been bent back or broken shoulder-high. "There's almost an instinct...
...particularly toward the end, of political life," said a journalist in Madrid. "The result was that even if some were bewildered, many more were interested. So much was crammed down so quickly. Everyone remembered how it was [before Franco died], and there you had the Communist flag in living color on television, and there was politics in the streets. It was like one of those old comic movies running at too fast a speed...
...society any more justified in discriminating against gays than it is in showing bigotry toward blacks? After all, some psychologists believe a man has no more control over his sexual preferences than a black has choice of his skin color. And gays, notes Attorney Walter Barnett in his book Sexual Freedom and the Constitution, "are human beings who suffer from their niggerdom as much as any black man ever did, even more so." With the rise of gay militancy, at least 38 communities (but no states) have adopted laws prohibiting discrimination in jobs or housing or public accommodations. A total...
...estimate more than $450 million has been invested in Ireland by U.S. companies ranging from General Electric, which makes components for color-television sets, to Bally Manufacturing Corp., the Chicago slot-machine company, which exports one-armed bandits from Dublin to Sydney. "We couldn't do business in Australia without that Dublin plant," says Bill O'Donnell, Bally's president, "because Ireland qualifies for special treatment on tariffs there." Although Keating is concentrating his efforts on the U.S., he recently lured Beecham Group Ltd., the big British pharmaceutical firm, to invest in a 50-acre site near...
...under 25) ensures that even if a controversial bill on family planning is passed by the government, some 30,000 new jobs must be created each year. Thus there is little or no resentment against foreign investors, save for the lunatic fringe of the I.R.A. In fact, the Irish color the overseas invasion with a touch of wit. Asahi, the $1.8 billion Japanese chemical concern, planted a $100 million textile factory in the barren wilds of Mayo, a western county haunted by memories of famine and emigration. Its peasantry have always been so poor that after the mere mention...