Word: kept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thing. Ask Todd Patterson. He had just finished the sixth grade in Franklin Lakes, N.J., when he began compiling his own encyclopedia of all the nations of the world. He wrote to embassies -- including the Soviet Union's -- for information. Enter the FBI, which began investigating the boy and kept at it until it had built up a 17-page file. Now an 18-year-old high school senior, Patterson brought suit in May against the FBI to get access to the files. Last week a federal judge threw out the suit. After reviewing FBI documents that Patterson's lawyers...
...Kareem's scowl became the definitive one. "My inability to enjoy my successes, or at least to show my enjoyment," he says, "made it hard for people to enjoy me." But he went on. He transferred to the Los Angeles Lakers in 1975 and kept going on. And on. "Just thinking of it now is strange," he says...
...blackhearted men. The title story is the most ambitious, a frightening descent into deep Southern swamps. But a dippy little yarn called Mississippi is just as satisfying. It is about a man who loses his girl because . . . well, because, like a horse with a straw hat on, he kept pausing to take in the foliage...
Manley's return was a resounding rejection of the conservative, free- enterprise philosophy that had kept Seaga in power for eight years and made him Ronald Reagan's closest ally in the Caribbean. Seaga, who consistently trailed Manley in the polls, had hoped to win back voters by promising to expand social welfare programs and build upon Jamaica's economic stability. He warned that a Manley victory would plunge the country back into socialist chaos...
...from 1991 until 1994, after which it would decline to $1.80. The rate for banks would increase too, from 83 cents per $1,000 to $1.20 in 1990 and $1.50 thereafter. Even though both industries' insurance funds would be administered by the FDIC, their proceeds will be kept separate...