Word: em
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Enlishmen.(Never mind that the Afghans were nationalists fighting for liberation.) No tears, then, when O'Malley bombs half the camp out of existence while escaping. Or, as old man Tozer says after they find him in China. "There's battles gotta be fought. Maybe this is one of'em...
While he has been restructuring the corporation, lacocca has never stopped scrutinizing new model designs. A little while ago, he took one look at a mock-up of a 1986 subcompact, then curtly told the stylists that the front grille and bumper made them look like "Dodg'em cars." The lights burned late in the styling studios for weeks thereafter. lacocca is unrepentant. Says he: "The guys who have it tough in this company are the product guy and the marketing guy because I grew up in those areas and think that I know more than they'll ever know...
...Britain's claim to the distant islands. "Argentina's only crime is taking its own territory after 149 years of unfair occupation," said one correspondent from south of the border. On the other side, supporters of Britain waved the Union Jack: "Attagirl, Maggie! You bashed 'em...
...controversial 29-year-old Republican, who was at Harvard to speak at the Republican Club's officer elections, explained that he just kept "attacking and attacking." "I was going to tell 'em like I really thought it was." Instead of using the polite language of the House of Representatives, he called Sen. Charles H. Percy (R-III.) "a wimp...
Caught up in the momentum of a fresh Washington scandal, Capitol Hill was thick with shadowy suspicions, cover-up charges and three-ring theatrics last week. There was little new, substantive information to feed the six, count 'em six, congressional committees investigating allegations that the Environmental Protection Agency had made "sweetheart" deals with polluting companies and delayed cleanups of toxic-waste dumps for political reasons. But there was enough sound and fury to prove that the affair Capitol wags have dubbed Waste Watergate (Wastegate, for short) was, as one worried presidential aide put it, "out of control...