Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Homeowners now eye neighbors with suspicion. Some families sleep in shifts. Others have rigged their homes with booby traps attached to guns. Says Jefferson's state senator, Charles Bond: "We're under siege. We have 800 citizens who are afraid to leave their homes even though they know they are potential homicide victims if they stay...
...giving Mitch ("Blood") Green a Carmen Basilio facial, crumpling one of his licensed hands in the process, Tyson momentarily faced charges brought not by the law but by Green. They were eventually dropped in the apparent hope that the champion might someday be agreeable to closing Green's other eye in a supervised match...
...hawk's-eye view makes the case unforgettable. Stewartt finds a break in the clouds, and we circle over logging operations in high, steep valleys. A huge Sikorsky helicopter is pulling logs out of a narrow canyon. What is going on is not just clear-cutting, which a widely ignored provision of the National Forest Management Act of 1976 permits on national forest land only when it is the optimum cutting method. This, says Stewartt, is really "a mining operation, a one-time extraction of resources." Valley walls too steep to walk on have been scraped to bare earth. Acreage...
...Israeli Cabinet to set a launch date. When lift-off occurs, Israel will become only the eighth country -- after the Soviet Union, U.S., France, Japan, China, Britain and India -- known to possess a rocket powerful enough to put a satellite into space. With its own orbiting electronic eye constantly monitoring Arab states, Israel would gain a distinct advantage in any military confrontation with its neighbors. In addition, Israel would no longer be forced to depend on U.S. satellite intelligence...
...better eye for the usable Eastern Establishment Republican than Richard Nixon. He loved to manipulate those he suspected of despising him. He took early notice of George Bush's organizational work in the 1950s, encouraged his Goldwater phase and campaigned for him in 1964. Bush in his early oil travels lived briefly in Nixon's hometown of Whittier, Calif. But the tie with Nixon was deeper than that. The ex-Vice President of the early 1960s, while cultivating Goldwaterites, was also acquiring a covey of "walking gentlemen" to escort him back onto the public scene -- young talents like Robert Finch...