Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...life puttering contentedly beyond the reach of history's spotlight. His time has < been spent writing monographs on the goby (a spiny-finned fish of the Gobiidae family), playing the cello and raising his two sons and one daughter. His official duties have kept him fitfully in the public eye but not in the popular imagination. As Crown Prince Akihito ascends Japan's Chrysanthemum Throne, he remains a mystery to his countrymen and a cipher to the world...
...around in limos. The vision is of New York as an international center for wealth, where anyone with capital feels at home, and anyone without capital has no place." So after years of wrangling, the $5 billion project is still no more than the proverbial gleam in Trump's eye...
...learn the identities of the terrorists. Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat agreed to assist the investigation last week, but the initial results of his offer only served to show how frustrating the probe could become. Even though Arafat maintains an extensive network of security men who keep an eye on Palestinian extremists, an Arafat spokesman said that "so far, the P.L.O. does not have any clues...
Even the most dangerous criminal suspects are usually allowed access to a telephone, but not Kevin Mitnick -- or at least not without being under a guard's eye. And then he is permitted to call only his wife, mother and lawyer. The reason is that putting a phone in Mitnick's hands is like giving a gun to a hit man. The 25-year-old sometime college student is accused by federal officials of using the phone system to become one of the most formidable computer break-in artists of all time...
...just well off. He is a member of the most powerful banking family in the U.S. For lagniappe, he bears a striking resemblance to Gary Cooper. The boy's only protector is a supermarksman out of Ghostbusters. Miquel is the sort of fellow who can shoot out the eye of a fly at 100 paces and vanish at will into a wood or a city, beyond the reach of ordinary humans...