Word: hani
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...back of the eye. Within two seconds the retinal pattern, viewed by a camera, is compared with data in stored records. At American Airlines' underground computer center in Tulsa, a dozen eye scanners screen the retinal patterns of 500 employees. "People were afraid of it at first," says Hani Rabi, an engineering manager for the airline. "But now they feel very comfortable with the security it affords...
...city of Los Angeles last week came up with something so bizarre that visitors may never forget it. After surveying about 150 entries, including a giant bird, a gargantuan baseball glove and a towering fountain of water, the selection committee settled on Steel Cloud, designed by New York architects Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture. When the first stage is completed in 1992, the $33 million glass-and-steel structure will rise up to twelve stories above the Hollywood Freeway in downtown Los Angeles and will be linked by bridges to the city's ethnic neighborhoods. Passersby will peer...
Arafat was just as eager to comply. On Monday evening, one of his closest advisers, Hani el-Hassan, already was in Egypt. He was soon joined by Abul Abbas, leader of the pro-Arafat faction of the P.L.F. The heavyset Abbas, 40, was born in Haifa and educated in Damascus; a former airline hijacker himself, Abbas rates high on many Western lists of most-wanted terrorists. In 1977, Abbas helped to found the P.L.F. as a breakaway group from the Syrian-backed Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine--General Command...
...much ingenuity as planning and shooting a film. Oshima financed his last three films with help from producers in France, Britain and New Zealand. Other directors may receive grants from the Art Theater Guild, which in the past 20 years has helped launch the careers of Oshima, Susumu Hani and Masahiro Shinoda. "If Japanese cinema hasn't become extinct," says Critic Sato, "it is because of the life-and-death efforts of directors who risk their own money and property to make movies...
...proposal to Lebanon's President Elias Sarkis and Prime Minister Chafik Wazzan after the U.S. envoy had returned from his swing through the Middle East. A P.L.O. evacuation plan had been drawn up early last week by Colonel Johnny Abdo, head of Lebanese army intelligence, and Hani al Hassan, Arafat's political adviser. The P.L.O. was pleased with the Habib proposals, even though the Palestinians had to forgo the staged withdrawal they preferred by way of the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon and thence to Syria...