Word: enterings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before he could enter the Aspen Hotel in Parsippany, N.J., where the meeting was held, Rawl had to run a gauntlet of hundreds of angry demonstrators, some chanting, "What do you do with a drunken sailor? Make him skipper of an Exxon tanker!" Environmental activist Barry Commoner summed up the spirit of the crowd when he declared, "We are here to pass judgment on a crime against nature and the American people...
...also never explores what makes his subjects write. He asserts that they drink because they are slaves to their genes, but he never really explains what inclines them to enter into a alcoholic cycle which they cannot escape...
Other states are scrambling to enter the video age. Last January the Kentucky Education Network began beaming probability-and-statistics classes into 65 far-flung high schools. By September Virginia expects to have earth stations at every one of its 289 high schools. Private networks, such as the Texas-based TI-IN Network, go even further, sending instruction to more than 750 school districts in 29 states...
...people to forget the blood loss of families, the destruction of entire villages?" asks a guerrilla leader in Peshawar. "How can you expect them to give up that feeling and say, 'Fine, let's sit down and talk'? It is like asking the Jews to pardon the Nazis and enter a government with them...
Given the abysmal track record of start-up airlines over the past ten years, investors are reluctant to enter the airline business except as buyers of existing carriers. Says wheeler-dealer Donald Trump: "There is still room for entrepreneurs in the industry." Trump's nearly final $365 million agreement to buy Eastern's shuttle operations was put in jeopardy again last week when Phoenix-based America West Airlines offered to pay some $25 million more for the shuttle, plus $335 million for ten additional Eastern aircraft. Northwest, meanwhile, is trying to fight off a takeover by Denver oilman Marvin Davis...