Word: gunned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ronald Reagan and Muammar Gaddafi resembles nitroglycerin: it can produce an explosion at the slightest jolt. Last week, for the fourth time since 1981, just such a blowup took place in the Mediterranean skies off Tobruk, where a shootout that could have been taken right from the movie Top Gun ended in the downing of two Libyan jets by American pilots...
...other experts familiar with the F-14 Tomcat. "I know it sounds strange to the layman to say, 'He pointed his nose at me five times so I shot him,' " conceded a jet-fighter technician. "But it makes sense in aerial combat. Furthermore, if some guy aims a gun at you in a dark alley, you don't ask him whether it's loaded...
...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...
...please, Legs is an amiable enough way to spend 2 1/2 hours. But it is altogether unmemorable. Its basic problems could not have been altered by a year of previews: the concept and the star. Legs traces the rise of a big-time gang leader in the machine-gun era of Al Capone. No matter how much the script sweetens and fictionalizes its depiction of the short and brutal life of Legs Diamond, the hero inevitably has blood on his hands...
While Congress recognized the need for the closings, lawmakers were gun-shy about the protests they were certain to provoke. So the legislators found a way to face the issue without having to make the painful choices themselves: they passed a bill endorsing the creation of a twelve-man bipartisan commission that would decide on the sites for closure. The commission submitted its recommendations to Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci last week; both he and the Joint Chiefs of Staff were reportedly prepared to approve them. The list will next go to Congress where it must be considered on a take...