Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fastest-growing economy." The previous day, Britain's third political force, the Social Democratic-Liberal Party Alliance, had outlined a more subdued picture, acknowledging Thatcher's economic achievements but judging their social and human costs to be intolerable. Their program, said S.D.P. Leader David Owen, was the "achievable dream...
...from Jackson, Miss., spent $45,000 and 170 days trying to see 700 birds during 1979. Vardaman, who called himself an amateur, paid guides and tipsters, jetted off after almost every rarity and ended the year listing 699 birds. Basham broke the 700 mark in 1983, and many birders dream of pushing the total higher...
Birders have a rough rule of thumb for distinguishing between normal and obsessed watchers: the obsessives dream of going to Attu, a bleak Aleutian island 100 miles from Soviet waters and about 1,500 miles from Anchorage. Attu vaguely resembles a penal colony, but it is paradise to birders pining for a flyby of the Siberian rubythroat or other Asian rarities. "We have people who go without any hope of seeing new birds," says Larry Balch, the ABA's president and head of Attour, a service that brings about 65 birders to the island each spring for three weeks. "There...
...many ways, the law is a prosecutor's dream. Courts have interpreted its "defraud" section to apply to any conspiracy that interferes with the lawful functioning of Government, even if the plot did not result in any other provable crime. People who play widely varying roles in a conspiracy can be judged equally guilty, and only one defendant need be shown to have committed "any act to effect the object of the conspiracy." Thus the prosecutor does not have to focus on the narrow specifics of allegedly illegal acts; he can lay a long, complex story before the jury...
Imagine chowing down cheesecake, feasting on French fries and pigging out on potato chips with little worry about calories. This fat-filled fantasy is still just an overeater's dream, but it moved closer to reality this month when Procter & Gamble dispatched a truck from its Cincinnati headquarters to the Food and Drug Administration in Washington. Its carefully guarded cargo: 30,000 pages of documents detailing tests of a new cholesterol- and calorie- free fat substitute that P&G calls olestra. The shipment included a petition asking the FDA to consider approving the substance's use in deep- fried foods...