Word: listeners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...walking in front of Holyoke Center, minding my own business, when something extraordinary happened. I was just starting to listen to one of the Square's myriad biblical prophets when someone burst through a nearby crowd of mimes and lifted me over his head. I looked down into the blue, slavering face of a vampire with teeth well over six inches long, and screamed at the top of my lungs...
...their way into the 1980s. A growing number are refusing to wear a veil in public, and some run businesses and are entering professions and occupations in which they work side by side with men. At King Saud University, female students still attend classes on a separate campus and listen to lectures from male professors over closed-circuit TV. But beneath their veiled garments, many are outfitted in tight skirts, spike heels and snug-fitting tops and resemble nothing so much as Brooke Shields look- alikes. The coeds are becoming more aggressive at the dating game. They bring photos...
Uncle Sam is always listening. With high-tech spy satellites, ships jammed with electronic gadgetry, super- sophisticated listening posts around the globe and eavesdropping devices--and sometimes with the help of plain old- fashioned human spies--the U.S. constantly monitors many of the key telephone conversations and cable traffic of its friends and foes alike. The U.S. intelligence community does not want to reveal which of these methods it used to listen in as Colonel Gaddafi sent orders from Tripoli to his far-flung terror network. But U.S. officials insist there is little doubt that a fortnight...
Pendleton was quickly rebuffed on virtually every side. The White House announced that Ronald Reagan continues to support set-asides. Congress, which has passed three such programs since 1977, seemed even less inclined to listen to the chairman's advice. Finally, the commission itself voted 5 to 3 to order a rewrite of the report on which Pendleton based his recommendation...
...ironic is how quick the Vice President and other live-free-market-or-die types are quick to scuttle survival of the fittest when people they know best end up losers. But let us shed no tears for the oilmen, they've soaked it in for too long. Listen, fellas, we're not going to change the rules 'cause the going got tough...