Word: copper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have purchased the highly useful color photographs, sometimes of each other's territory. The U.S. has also helped set up Landsat receiving stations in a number of countries so that they can receive the satellite data directly. In Pakistan, Landsat imagery has led to the development of new copper deposits. In the Middle East and Africa, the pictures give advance warning of locusts...
...would join along on the official tour and know the end of almost every sentence before the interchangeably well-groomed Swedish, Ghanan, or Berundi tour guide completed the thought. The land on which the U.N. now stands was given by the Rockefellers, I would say to myself. The copper peace bell in the garden is made of the melted down pennies given by children all over the world, I'd mumble half-aloud. I would always know just where in the gift shop to find the colorful flags-of-all-nations combination paperweight and pencil holders...
...good night, can make for a quiet laugh and an easy hour. And they may even suggest that television is doing better imitating the movies than cannibalizing itself. Police shows, a usually reliable network staple, have pretty much come a cropper-or, under the circumstances, anything but a copper. Brian Devlin (Rock Hudson) on The Devlin Connection (NBC, Saturdays, 10 p.m. E.S.T.) is head of a huge culture complex in Los Angeles who does some investigating with his son on the side. As played by Robert Urich, Gavilan (NBC, Tuesdays, 9 p.m. E.S.T.) is a crime-busting oceanographer more...
...arming to unseat Republication incumbent Senator Orrin Hatch, the luxury of Democratic challengers throughout the nation--attacking President Reagon's programs--was taboo for him until a month ago, when the highest state unemployment rate since before World War II (8.7 percent) was announced and the largest copper and steel manufacturers began massive layoffs...
...neurological abnormality characterized by tics and involuntary outbursts of swearing (100,000 Americans); Prader-Willi syndrome, a children's ailment that causes huge weight gains and often kills its victims before they are 20 (2,000); Wilson's disease, a condition marked by abnormal accumulation of copper in the liver and brain (1,000); Huntington's chorea, the degenerative disease of the mind and nervous system that caused the death of Folk Singer Woody Guthrie (14,000); as well as various rare cancers...