Word: flee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turn off. Eureka, thought Brown, the better mousetrap! After further tinkering, he produced the AMIGO-an acronym for ants, mice and gophers. The football-size device emits electromagnetic waves that have no effect on people or domestic animals but upsets the small pests' neurological systems. They either flee or go into a trance-like state, refuse to eat and die. Brown has sold some 12,000 of his zappers, at prices from $350 to $1,000. Among his customers: the U.S. Marine base at Camp Pendleton, Calif., where two AMIGOS cleared a ten-acre parade field of gophers...
...spend their off-duty hours helping. But while top officers professed optimism, some lower-ranking detectives saw the huge manpower effort as window dressing. They consider the chances of seizing Son of Sam as minimal, unless, however subconsciously, he wants to be caught, is overtaken before he can flee a shooting site or some citizen provides a revealing...
Vance's first stop was Alexandria, the 2,300-year-old metropolis of the Nile Delta, to which nearly 2 million Cairenes-among them Egyptian President Anwar badat-flee each summer to escape the capital's stifling heat. The Secretary, who suffers from a chronically bad back arrived fatigued from his 13-hour flight. Although he was limping slightly because of a calf muscle he had pulled the previous day in a tennis game with World Bank President Robert McNamara, he headed directly for Sadat's lavish four-story seaside villa. As Vance approached, Sadat began opening...
...players is to get as many genes as possible into the next generation, at the lowest cost. Some of the best low-cost players are female fish, which deposit their unfertilized eggs in front of a chosen male. Then, while he is inseminating the eggs, they flee, leaving the poor male to protect his genetic investment by nurturing the young himself...
...Sauvages perpetuates the image of women in film that has been so destructive to women in general. It suggests that women who are attractive to men must be wildly energetic, self-centered and beautiful, even at the expense of warmth and tenderness; that although they may flee from one man they are continually on the lookout for another; that women need men to calm them down and set their priorities straight. Les Sauvages projects the old "I know what she needs" attitude and it's just not funny. In fact, it's downright offensive...