Word: decking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that had befallen them after being lured into the world of pornography. In Miami, for example, Larry Madigan, 38, told the commission he had been "a typically normal, healthy boy," whose subsequent life of solitary masturbation, bestiality and drug addiction could all be traced to the finding of a deck of pornographic playing cards when he was twelve...
...tastes; last year 200,000 responses were returned. They form the first profile of an audio market that according to computer projections, will yield industry-wide sales of more than $250 million in 1986. After all, analysts point out, most new-car manufacturers offer the option of a tape deck, and Walkman-style cassette players have become as much a part of the urban landscape as Reeboks and Perrier. Each tape deck and set of earphones represents a potential customer, a statistic that is not lost on Frank Vertuca, associate director of marketing and distribution at Bantam. "A major part...
...regulation training weeks a year, he is also Secretary of the Navy. But as the Reserve bomber-navigator on an A- 6 attack plane at Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach, Va., Lehman took the right-hand, nonpilot seat on training missions. He also spent time at "deck-plate level," getting a feel for the concerns of ordinary seamen and petty officers. The Secretary acts on the gripes too. After a training week earlier this year, Lehman ordered an investigation into whether some A-6 squadrons should be modified...
...likes to believe that he is reading it like it is, and the novel of the modern knight-errant is very much a male genre. It operates on the rigid belief that the world is rotten; to think otherwise is dangerous and unmanly. A corollary view is that the deck is stacked against the decent little guy or distressed damsel. The evidence often seems overwhelming. The shattering aftereffects of World War I, the rise of organized crime during Prohibition, the disillusionment of the Depression, all paralleled the development of the gallant equalizer. Today he is likely to deal with government...
...brass plaque embedded in the wood of what is now known as the surrender deck memorializes that moment in Tokyo Bay: 0908, Sept. 2, 1945. V-J day. The conclusion of World War II. "Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always," MacArthur told Americans huddled around radios in darkness half a world away...