Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vivacious office worker from West London, flew home with the memory of 24 hours spent inside a Roman tomb with her boy friend while Turks shelled the area; the couple feared they would be buried alive. Twins Amanda and Penny Mieras of Kent spent their 16th birthday using lipstick, eye shadow and a bed sheet to make a Union Jack to identify them as neutrals. U.S. Businessman John Mazzarella of New York City was among a group of tourists forced to remain inside the Ledra Palace Hotel in Nicosia as hos tages of the Greeks against Turkish snip ers outside...
...longer term, Greenspan favors thorough review of the budget-making process itself, with an eye toward re-examining such historic "un-controllables" as Social Security and veterans' benefits that he says go to permanent and ever-expanding "fiscal constituencies." He suspects that the administration of federal programs has generated huge cost overruns that would have made lawmakers, had they foreseen them, think twice about voting affirmatively. Greenspan's question: "Are the programs really mandated by law? We should look into that...
...impact on the Judiciary Committee proceedings- was hardly limited to anonymous threats. Four cameras and a panoply of klieg lights transformed the committee room into a blazing national platform. Yet the big eye's presence did not cause any histrionics. The contrast with last summer's Ervin-committee hearings was sharp. Speeches and statements were shorter; committee members are used to competing for time on the House floor with 434 colleagues, while Senators can afford a more leisurely pace. The TV cameras often appeared to be the raison d'etre of the Senate Watergate grillings...
...reader is meant to see the lifted eye brow and to smile. Then he is meant to see the sober truth of the statement be hind its mockery. Then the mockery be hind that sobriety and so on. What lies deeper, the mockery or the truth? It is a rare comic writer who can raise the question, and Kundera...
...trying to set fair ground rules for the sharing of new resources whose abundance is only beginning to be measured. It is this that is forcing a more realistic if not necessarily appealing approach to the oceans. Man is turning to the sea with a surveyor's eye. For the first time, he is compelled to consider the implications of the fact that if all the oceans' volume were divided equally among all the people on earth today, each person would own a watery cube measuring 300 ft. on each side to serve as a storehouse of food...