Word: constant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, the din at the Grand Canyon seems to be growing louder. Hikers claim that the thwack-thwack and droning of aircraft echo constantly through the canyon. During a five-hour walk from an overlook known as Hermit's Rest to a station near Cope's Butte, one observer counted 16 helicopters, 36 fixed- wing planes and twelve jets. The constant barrage yielded few moments of uninterrupted serenity and nothing resembling hermitism. "They remind me of a bunch of little gnats, just swarming all around," says Sharon Galbreath, who chairs the Grand Canyon branch of the Sierra Club. Concurs Fred...
UNIVERSITY HEALTH SERVICES (UHS) is the subject of constant student complaints. Stories of long lines, misdiagnosis, and poor treatment abound. These gripes are generally the murmurings of the dissatisfied and the indisposed, who find that institutionalized medical care can't match the standards established by Mom, Dad and the genial family doctor...
Some countries have responded to the recent spate of terrorist hijackings by deploying heavily armed guards and armored vehicles at airports. Although reluctant to discuss what other safety measures have been taken to meet new threats, airline officials insist that both detection technology and security personnel are under constant review. Explains Pan Am Spokesman James Arey: "The terrorists out there use every nugget of information to help develop their master plan." Some insiders, however, are skeptical. An Alitalia pilot believes that terrorist attacks galvanize airport security police into only temporary vigilance. "That lasts about a week," he complains. Too often...
...government defends its authoritarian habits by invoking the constant threat of an attack from the North. That is by no means an idle threat. In recent months, North Korea has massed the majority of its forces just across the demilitarized zone, poised for a quick strike. It built two new airfields from which its planes can reach Seoul in just eight minutes, and bought from the Soviet Union new SCUD B surface-to-surface missiles that can hit the South Korean capital. According to Chun, his country's enemies have already begun maneuvering to sabotage two big events on Seoul...
Granted the zippy registration of Katz's style and his constant ingenuity at fitting stacks of faces into difficult and mannered formats, given his bonhomie and sense of the social moment, the freshness of his color and the adroitness with which he makes his art-historical references--all this admitted, why does this show produce so unmistakable an aftertaste of satiation and deja vu? Katz's fans like to stress that his paintings are "deceptively simple," as though some mass of knotted thought lurked beneath their surfaces. But in fact, what you see is what you get, and his repertoire...