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...Political Action Committee (PAC), originally created to insure the representation of minority views in our democracy, now threaten to engulf the very political machination that created them--the budgetary process. The PAC has become a real-life Washington nightmare of "The Blob," a mass of lobbyists that spills down from Capitol Hill, tearing at the heartland of America. Men, women, children run for cover...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Gramm-Rudman | 2/11/1986 | See Source »

...trickling into the side streets the way water glints in dark canals. Each area of the neighborhood has its own light. On the older residential streets, the lights in the houses are modest, like candle glow, except where someone has decided to explode with the season and Christmas lights engulf a house to the extent that no house shows. At the harbor, the late day brings almost total darkness; the lights are on the water in the windows of the boats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Christmas Story | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

...CRACK has appeared in the beseiged brick facade of Massachusetts Hall. The fault is a narrow one, but it is more than wide enough to engulf President Derek C. Bok's carefully argued and heretofore intransigent investment policy...

Author: By David S. Hilzen, | Title: Rewriting the Gospel According to Bok | 9/24/1985 | See Source »

...first to propose that pulsars were rapidly rotating neutron stars (all evidence suggests he was right). In the mid-1960s he sparked another ruckus by predicting that the first spacecraft to land on the moon could encounter a mile-thick layer of dust that, if loose, would engulf the vehicle (the lunar surface, of course, was perfectly firm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Theory As Good As Gold | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

espionage, the other sabotage, engulf the governments of West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: September 2, 1985 Vol. 126 No. 9 | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

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