Word: fitfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...alleged killer of Rebecca Schaeffer appears to fit the profile to a % remarkable degree. He kept a video collection of episodes of her television show. He proudly displayed an autographed publicity photo of the actress, and he sent her "an affectionate letter" a year ago. He called her agency several times. Sadly, no one discerned in time the pattern of a fatal obsession...
...life helps make him its prisoner. His quick temper has got him fired from jobs that might have enabled him to buy his boat and independence. Banks will not lend him money. He has no telephone at home because he ripped it out of the wall during a fit of anger. He poaches clams at a neighboring bird sanctuary, more out of orneriness than hope of profit. And, to complicate his existence still further, he has fallen into a love affair with Elsie Buttrick, the local game and fish warden...
...release of the first James Bond movie,Dr. No, in 1962. That film was made at the height of Cold War tension, at a time when the superpowers came closer than ever before--or ever since--to the brink of nuclear destruction. And Ian Fleming's rugged superspy fit perfectly into that world...
...many virtues, From Beirut to Jerusalem shows why messengers from the Middle East who try to remain impartial will find many factions eager to throttle them. The place lives and dies on faith and mythology; a mere fact is useless, possibly dangerous, until it has been modified to fit within a dogma. Most of the region's bloodiest episodes during the '80s, the author argues, arose from failures to recognize complex realities...
...could push the timber industry back into its hard-line position. Before the compromise was conceived, the lumbermen had made it plain that they would reject any reduction in permissible logging. In Washington, Oregon's congressional delegation was angered and disappointed. Lamented Hatfield: "I wonder if those who saw fit to torpedo a fair, short- term solution have anything to offer...