Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They load down their mules and camels with mortars, heavy machine guns and mines, then scramble along steep, rocky trails through an eerily deserted landscape. Stealing past a government fort and fields still littered with bomb fragments and mines, ignoring the distant thunder of MiGs and flares on the horizon, they cross the highlands along the border and descend toward battle...
Sears is still working to broaden its business horizon. The company has set up the Sears Communications Network, which is going to sell computer-data transmission and communications services. The company is already offering long-distance telephone services through MCI Communications, one of the new competitors of A T & T. Customers may charge calls to their monthly Sears bill. In California the company is experimenting with a telephone bill-paying service linked to its credit card. In February, Sears launched a joint venture with IBM and CBS to develop a home-information service called Trintex, which will probably involve bill...
...currently writing a book about that job, lives on a hillside back in a canyon. Her house is not on stilts, as so many others are, but she explains them by saying, "Well, you're kind of on top of the world. Where else could you have this horizon? And some stayed in place even in the earthquake in '71. You may get a slide, but then the sun comes out, you clean up the mud, and you're here for another season. You build a retaining wall." A journalist who lives here volunteers that "people...
Throughout On the Yankee Station, Boyd's aspiring lechers either vent or invent grievances all the way from California to France and from Africa to Viet Nam. Yet however exotic the horizon, the foreground is always grungy. The sea along the Côte d'Azur is "filled with weed and feces from an untreated sewage outlet"; Cameroon is "a stinking, sweaty country," of insects and imbroglios; California beaches are littered with derelicts and bums; and just about everywhere, there are washed-out blonds in greasy cafés or easy women who turn out to be hard...
...recent years; both are lawyers with corporate experience. Neither would dismantle Canada's existing social welfare program, but both want to cut government deficits and unemployment and increase foreign investment. After calling last week on his countrymen to "reach for the stars in a land that has no horizon," Turner promised to promote his country as best...