Word: eventers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This was an accidental by-product of the event and the resulting display of media interest," the commission wrote, "Society does not condone burglary on the grounds that it heightens concern about safety and security...
Although many respected observers argue the case, it makes little sense to worry unduly about the vulnerability of the land-based leg of the triad when it accounts for only 20% of the 12,000 warheads in America's strategic nuclear arsenal. Even in the unlikely event that a first strike wiped out the entire American land-based missile force, the U.S. could still obliterate the Soviet % Union with a fraction of the 5,300 warheads on its modern missile submarines and the 4,700 on its bombers. Though the first operational test last week of a Trident II missile...
...would never recognize. To the obsessive fan, the big story is rarely the arrival of a new Elmore Leonard or Ed McBain or Dick Francis -- although, as it happens, each of those established commercial writers has a new book out at the moment, all of middling quality. The main event is more likely to be, say, a new Simon Brett or Stuart M. Kaminsky, a new Jonathan Valin or Michael Allegretto. These less heralded figures often produce a prose more intense and flavorful, a sense of scene more convincing and a story more tightly wound yet believable than the brand...
There will be no greater publishing event this century than the appearance...
Despite his wife's pledge not to seek child support in the event that she gives birth, Davis, a refrigeration-maintenance engineer, would remain legally liable for such support. His lawyer, Charles Clifford, says that Davis "cannot envision ever agreeing to letting Mrs. Davis have the eggs implanted into her, or donated to a third party." Adds Clifford: "He was hoping that it was just going to be a simple no-fault divorce...