Word: corner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bakker sits in a corner of the white couch in his trinket-filled Spanish- style living room, looking like a schoolboy with bad grades. His hands are clasped between his knees, and his eyes remain fixed on the large black leather Bible spread before him. His pasty white face carries a sad, dazed expression. He is plainly shaken by his fall from grace. "We've almost died," he says. "I want to tell you . . . the first five weeks was like living hell." He pauses and touches the Bible. "At times we really wished they would have put a bullet...
...first published in 1934, has topped 3.5 million in sales. Birders account for most of the $14 billion spent annually on the appreciation of wildlife. That includes binoculars, spotting scopes, cameras, records and tapes of bird sounds, computerized software for keeping bird lists, and bird tours that reach any corner of the world, from Siberia and Mongolia (23 days, $3,595 from Wings, Inc.) to Madagascar, Mauritius and Reunion (25 days, $3,775 from Field Guides Inc.). Though some birders regard their hobby as a naturalist rejection of high-tech culture, the rebuke often requires frequent jet trips, Leitz...
...because they were uttered not for the benefit of the press but for 15 senior staffers at his Denver headquarters. "I realize that I've hurt people and let all of you down, and I apologize," he told his aides during a two-hour farewell meeting in the cramped corner office of Campaign Manager William Dixon. "There are a lot of idealistic 23-year-old kids out there that I have hurt, and I want you to tell them that I'm sorry and that they should not get discouraged and should keep working for what they believe...
...society to which they belong. For America too has grown from a collection of separate colonies preoccupied with local interests to a single nation shielded by oceans from foreign conflicts and finally to a great world power connected by political, commercial, and military links to events in every corner of the globe...
...Administration used a shady network to undermine America's policy of not trading for hostages and to circumvent laws prohibiting the Government from supplying military aid to the contras. The critical lesson, Cohen predicts, will be the discovery that "you can't formulate policy in some dark corner without heading toward anarchy...