Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...missile battery in Europe. She is just days away from basic training. "It's a little nerve-racking, like he said it would be. Going into a new society, I mean," she explains. "For most of basic, I won't see children or watch TV or hear music or even see animals." Cooper, however, does not confess any apprehension. He calls Yasenak "Yasenak," like a pal, and believes he knows what he's getting into. "He showed me videos of the different Army occupations I could take." A combat specialty does not appeal...
...Sandinista organizers urged the audience to march through town as a way of drawing attention to the May Day rally. The demonstrators complied. When the parade returned some 30 minutes later, however, only half of the participants returned with it. The reduced crowd of 2,000 faithful remained to hear Nicaragua's agrarian reform minister, Jaime Wheelock Román, heap scorn on Nicaragua's Roman Catholic hierarchy for suggesting that the government should negotiate with the U.S.-backed contra guerrillas, who are waging hit-and-run warfare along the country's borders. Yet the generally desultory...
From a base camp in Honduras no more than two miles from the border, we can hear the boom of Sandinista artillery. The 26 fighters who will accompany us into Nicaragua are part of a 1,000-man F.D.N. task force that operates in Nueva Segovia. They wear U.S. Army-issue fatigues or blue-green Honduran-made uniforms or, in the case of new recruits, civilian clothes. Armed with Belgian FAL or Chinese-made AK-47 assault rifles and trained by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in demolition and information gathering, they appear to be a well-conditioned, highly motivated...
...Kravis, Roberts & Co., a New York City investment firm. A bidding war for Esmark, whose brand names include Avis car rental and Max Factor cosmetics, might get started. The price of Esmark's stock immediately shot up in expectation of a takeover battle. Said one Esmark official: "We hear that there are higher offers, and the investment bankers are out looking for them right...
Their repertory includes such come-again classics as Big Bottom, Intravenus de Milo and The Sun Never Sweats. Until recently, the only way a fan could hear them was by buying a ticket to This Is Spinal Tap, a mock rockumentary that chronicles the exploits of a fictitious heavy-metal band. The group called Spinal Tap was only a joke, created for the film by Director Rob (All in the Family) Reiner, 39, and its three main members, played by Writer-Comedians Harry Shearer, 40, Christopher Guest, 36, and Michael McKean, 36. The movie has been such a stomping success...