Word: countless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...knew," Jimmy proceeds to emblazon it everywhere from the big screen at Shea Stadium to the provebial horse's behind. Each of these public service messages is signed "Turk 1821." Lynch's nom de plume inspired by his brother's nickname and badge number. Clever Jim manages to deface countless subway cars, buses, public monuments, and even Mayor Tyler's own limosine before getting caught...
...nearly three-quarters of a century, the heavy oak drawers and musty, dog- eared cards of the New York Public Library's catalog room were the index to knowledge for countless scholars and schoolchildren. Last month, however, the card catalog served up its last title, author and book number. As part of the main library's $45 million face-lifting, the catalog room is being computerized, its 8,973 drawers and 10 million cards replaced by a central memory bank and 50 low-slung terminals. Instead of thumbing through stacks of 3-by-5 cards in search of a book...
Gromyko has little interest in the Third World. He would rarely see Foreign Ministry officials concerned with developing countries and, despite countless invitations, has never visited any black African nation. Except for Cuba, he has never been to a Latin American country. China interests him primarily through the prism of Moscow-Washington-Peking politics. I once had an argument about all this with Vadim Zagladin, deputy to Boris Ponomarev, chief of the Central Committee's International Department. Speaking of Africa, I remarked on the futility of "playing with some pissant little 'liberation' committees that come into being overnight and disappear...
...countless hours of testimony before congressional committees, the Defense Secretary has adamantly refused to be drawn into what he considers the ultimate budgetary trap: volunteering nonessential items. With willful patience, he defends the entire package. Says Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Barry Goldwater: "When he gets his mind made up, you just don't change it." Weinberger's admirers defend that strategy as both savvy and proper. "The Congress wants to be able to cut the budget and then say Weinberger said it's O.K.," says Carlucci. "That is a perversion of the process...
...standard-size vacuum cleaner, squatting in countless American closets, is a veritable symbol of drudgery. But now there is a little vac hanging on the wall, designed just to clean up the spilled potting soil and the scattered cat litter. It is the Dustbuster, and its phenomenal success is dramatically changing the fortunes of its maker, Black & Decker...