Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Everyone in the bleachers at Beren Tennis Courts expected a close match. Both coaches and players foresaw a tight match. Even President Bok expected a close match. There was tension in the air and determination in the eye of each player...
...opts for danger and discomfort. Nothing to Declare is a memoir of her travels in Central America, which she explores in the tradition of truth through squalor, using a Mexican slum as a base camp. Despite occasional lapses into over- studied eloquence, she is a fascinating guide, with an eye for the brutal, the garish, the silly and bizarre. At a Mayan market in the Yucatan, Morris is tempted by giant beetles being sold as pets. "They were dressed as cowboys with small hats, boots on their legs, soldiers in camouflage, and women of the night, with long eyelashes...
...does no good to remind him that in the course of winning 20 major championships, he hit a few fairways previously. Nicklaus thinks he has found magic again. The last time was two years ago this week at the Masters in Augusta, Ga., where anyone with a wet eye could see that his mother in the gallery and his son at his side had more to do with a sixth victory surging out of him at 46 than did the oversize putter he waved jubilantly. "I wanted something with the largest possible moment of inertia and the smallest dispersion factor...
Privately, however, the factions around the two leaders do not see exactly eye to eye. Zhao envisions the 11,200-mile coast as a powerful economic engine to which the backward interior provinces can eventually hitch themselves and thus be pulled into the 21st century. The more conservative party leaders who support Li caution that the increasingly well-off coastal economies could create instability. But only the speed of the reforms is being questioned, not their necessity. Last week State Councilor Song Ping proposed recombining 14 existing ministries and commissions into ten new ones. If adopted, the proposal would...
Pestered by smaller specialty stores, Sears is buying up some of them. The company has taken over the Western Auto Supply chain and acquired small groups of women's boutiques and eye-care shops. Sears is also experimenting with different sales tactics in its main stores. Example: the company plans to break its custom of selling only appliances bearing its Kenmore brand name and test public reaction to the appearance of other nationally known brands at one of its stores...