Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...divestment alumni, prominent businessmen and educators themselves, represent a movement to establish a tradition of dissent. They will help to open the board to public eye, and play a role in revitalizing and broadening its powers to include regular review of financial policies. This year's election should not repeat past popularity contests but instead begin the mammoth task of democratizing and scrutinizing the administration of Harvard...
Finally, we arrived in downtown Chapstick and Sunglasses. The city was about 50 miles square. On one side of the highway were tubes of chapstick as far as the eye could see. In some places, the tubes were piled high; in others, they nestled in small private communities. Blistex had its own private beach club...
...will soon introduce new air-collision warning devices for airliners and more sophisticated computers for the air-traffic control system, but he suggested that the "solution to the midair collision threat will still be the pilot." There is no substitute, Engen said, "for a vigilant airman's eye...
...Upper Peninsula, and harbored a dream to head West. In 1968 he did, and started as a buckaroo on a ranch in Oregon. Acquaintances called him gentle, quiet, a loner. Dallas earned a reputation as a hard worker and a fellow who'd stare you straight in the eye. "Buckarooing," he once explained in charming simplicity, "is just a man doing his job, working with livestock on horseback, doing whatever work that has to be done on horseback regarding livestock and cattle, you know." But as the cow business faltered, Dallas turned to trapping and hunting the backcountry from Tonopah...
...rejoinder to the panel's conclusions. Says Deputy Under Secretary of Defense Stephen Bryen: "In computer technology alone, the Soviets had narrowed the gap on us to a year and a half. Due to our export restrictions, that gap is back up to seven or eight years." With an eye on the horrendous U.S. trade deficit, however, Commerce Department officials are openly sympathetic to the study's criticism. Says Paul Freedenberg, an assistant Commerce Secretary: "We can cut the list. We can be more responsive." The debate is likely to become sharper as concern over the trade balance continues...