Word: lock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...announced one trip before the Inauguration: to Mexico to visit President López Portillo in early January. Beyond that, he had little to say. Explained his chief aide, Edwin Meese: "This is not a time in which you profitably make news. You don't want to lock yourself into policy positions prematurely...
...squeeze on credit was a major burden on business all year long. Companies began avoiding new debt financing through the long-term bond market because high rates made that too expensive. Instead, they turned to banks for short-term loans that would not lock them into high rates for ten years or more. Industries that depend heavily on credit, particularly home building and auto sales, have been staggering. Lone Star Industries, the country's largest cement producer, last week took out full-page newspaper ads featuring a large skull and crossbones and the warning POISON...
...which his idols condoned, and dropped acid when he was only 15. His parents strongly disapproved of the drugs, as well as of the Beatles, and would not let him play their records in the house. They searched his room, and once, when his mother warned him not to lock his bedroom door, he pried it off its hinges, took it downstairs and leaned it against the kitchen wall. He resisted authority, fought with his younger sister, and ran away from home several times. All the while he identified closely with Lennon, the most rebellious of the Beatles...
...SHUDDER PASSES through the form of sleeping Derek Bok; The floor creaks in the hallway, a key turns in the lock. He wakens; it is morning; his dreams have filled the night, And President Bok's secretary switches on his light. "There's thirty, forty students outside banging on the door, Demanding that they see you." He asks, "What're they here for? Is it the Third World Center? Is it a tenure dispute? Is it about those kiosks? Or maybe the shuttle bus route? Could it be the latest divestiture demand? Is it the Radcliffe Forum...
...unhurried pace of traditional Western life, the neighborly feeling of the small towns and above all the sense of individual independence. "There's a way of life disappearing," says Orson Rollins, 69, a retired rancher who now operates a service station in Craig, Colo. "We never used to lock our doors. That's gone." Says Postal Clerk Helen Stout, whose onetime sheep town of Parson, Wyo., is now filling