Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scheme cannot be dismissed as just a pipe dream. Last month Gaddafi opened a plant at Brega, south of Benghazi, where some of the 73-ton pipeline sections will be made. Price Bros. of Dayton, a company that is prevented by U.S. restrictions from operating in Libya, provided most of the technology to build the plant. The main contractor, the Dong-Ah Construction Co. of South Korea, is bringing in 8,000 workers to make and lay the pipes. The project seems to be unaffected by Washington's ban on U.S. exports to Libya or by President Reagan's January...
...speech, Jackson is full of Bo, given to admiring himself in the third person. Yet he stammers slightly. "But you can be a millionaire," college teammates urged him, "and live the dream." He told them, "Bo's going to follow his heart." Its first stop was Memphis, home of the Chicks, where hitters right out of the egg can begin striking a gingerly acquaintance with curve balls. After 45 at bats, the most famous rightfielder in all of Double A had four hits (.089). "I've always got off slow in baseball," he says. "That's the only sport...
...hairdressers is under way, and the proud, haughty Queenie Pie (Teresa Burrell) is on the verge of her 13th consecutive title. Unexpectedly, she is challenged by an upstart from New Orleans, the leggy Cafe Olay (Patty Holley), and is forced to examine her arid life. There is an extended dream sequence on a mythic island, during which Queenie Pie discovers where her heart really lies. At the end, victorious, she magnanimously gives up her crown to go off with Lil Daddy (Larry Marshall), who has been in love with her for years...
...honorable dream. And it is based on a clear logic: since much of the terrorism in the Middle East is committed either by Palestinians or by others acting in their name, why not solve the terrorism problem by solving their problem...
Issam Sartawi, the one P.L.O. leader who advocated exactly the kind of solution Americans like to dream about, a Palestinian state living side by side with Israel, was also murdered, shot dead in Portugal in 1983. Not too many Palestinians have since risen to take up his cause. It is truer to say that terrorism is a root cause of the continuing Arab-Israeli conflict than vice versa...