Word: hat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This was a three-year-old effort to intercept drug smugglers on ships and in aircraft. U.S. military maneuvers in the Caribbean are often used to target suspected drug smugglers, tracking them until civilian police or the Coast Guard can make an arrest. In one such sweep, the 1985 "Hat Trick I" operation, some $27 million worth of drugs was confiscated...
...deep-fried eggs. Usually on hand are steak with chili corn sauce, stuffed squid, eggplant and tomato combinations and even small portions of main-course dishes like paella. The tiny portions range in price from $1.50 to $5.50, and the check grows as drinking induces hunger and a hat-over- the-windmill attitude develops toward the mounting total...
...institution will fail to come up with enough funds to encourage the kind of policy changes needed for long-term Third World growth. Warns Lawrence Brainard, a senior vice president of Manhattan's Bankers Trust: "Barber Conable will not be able to pull a rabbit out of the hat to solve the debt crisis...
...copper interior? The Lehrer-McGovern construction-management company has had to manage a considerable logistical feat: on Liberty Island alone, they coordinate the work of four different architectural and engineering firms, dozens of individual contractors and, during the 2 1/2 years of construction, some 500 craftsmen and hard-hat workers...
...Mistook His Wife for a Hat is surely the season's strangest book title. Nonetheless, the collection of literate yet authoritative case studies by Neurologist Oliver Sacks, 52, has been on bestseller lists across the country these past 13 weeks. "I am equally interested in diseases and people," says Sacks, who teaches and practices in New York City, and his accounts of loss, excess and aberration always seek the individual behind the disorder. Perhaps because such a readable combination of erudition and compassion is so rare, Sacks' four books have earned him a quasineurological disorder of his own: the assault...