Word: hitchings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cash has a price. As they apply for their checks, Alaskans will have to fill out some 1.2 million forms. The cost of the applications and the manpower required to process them is estimated at nearly $2 million over the next twelve months. There is one other minor hitch: the U.S. Internal Revenue Service will insist that those tax rebates and oil fund dividends be reported as income-and thus Washington too will benefit from Alaska's governmental generosity...
...someone with a key to let them into the office when four F.A.L.N. members, wearing blue-and-white-checked pillowcases as masks, stepped off the elevator. Brandishing handguns, they tied the workers' hands behind their backs and ordered them to lie face down on the floor. One hitch: everyone was still locked out. Five more people got off the elevator, one of whom had the key. Once inside, the intruders went to work looking for voter-registration and phone lists. They left emptyhanded, however, since the address lists were at a mailing house and the phone lists were scattered...
...behind her. Like thousands of other refugees from her embattled country, she began a new life in a new land. Attending public school in Dallas, Tex., Li quickly made friends with her classmates, learning their games and customs and teaching them her own. Her assimilation proceeded happily, without a hitch...
...landed in the late afternoon in Walmar, Minnesota, a refreshing stop after the dry-rot outposts of the Plains. Walmar seemed typical of those clean, secure, Main Street towns that appear nestled in a green effulgence when you glide eastward over the Missouri. A short, 40 mile hitch by road took me to Flying Cloud Airport, just outside of Minneapolis, where I unrolled a sleeping bag and spent the night...
...honors list, the only show-biz personality knighted this year. Fittingly, he received formal notification of the honor at a ceremony in the commissary at Universal City Studios. Why, Hitchcock was asked, had it taken so long for Britain to honor such a distinguished son? Quipped Sir Hitch: "I suppose it was a matter of carelessness...