Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rancher shakes his head. "A cattleman's word is as good as his bond. But the oilman thinks that breaking his word is smart business. He even admires it." One catches, yet again, a faintly elegiac note, the hint of mourning for a more chivalrous, manly order that is collapsing. Raising beef in a nation terrified of cholesterol does not always retain either its profit or its romance. The rancher wonders (as he has for a generation or two) if the endangered species is not the man who rides the horse. -By Lance Morrow
...billion Saudi purchase of U.S. AWACS radar warning planes had been signed, although he had been expected to do so. Presumably the Secretary once again urged Fahd to visit Washington, a trip the Crown Prince has canceled twice during the past year, but there was no hint that Fahd intended to accept the invitation in the near future. The basic problem, as always, was the Saudi view that the U.S. must take a "stronger stance" against Israel, in pursuit of a Middle East peace...
...observatory. Because of the pristine quality of the air and the funnel-like shape of the earth's magnetic field at the antipodes, scientists are able to measure the amount of carbon dioxide and pollutants in the atmosphere and register the influx of cosmic rays from space (a hint of solar activity) with much greater ease than at any other place on the earth's surface. The station also acts as a laboratory for the study of human behavior in isolation. Last week the season's final flight took off from the pole. Left behind until November...
...leader. You watch your instruments, air speed, altitude, the other aircraft and where you are relative to everything else." An Air Force board of inquiry will take weeks to determine the "probable cause," and officers are not ruling out a mid-air collision, though eyewitness accounts contain no hint...
...sudden climate changes." Among the outfits that seemed to fill the bill: a $256 red silk dress by Andre Van Pier and a pair of $175 gold La Marca pumps. "Physically, I'm in better shape than when I was 17," says Chris, before adding, with a hint of wistfulness, "but being 27 isn't like being...