Word: moon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year, when its Bulletin folded, leaving the Inquirer as the city's only publishing daily. In Washington, the demise of the Star made the Post the only paper on the stands--until a peculiar competitor arose in the form of the daily Times, bankrolled by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon...
...Reagan Administration welcomed the shoot-the-moon investment frenzy, even if it might turn out to be fleeting. Treasury officials predicted that lower interest rates would clear the way for at least a modest recovery in 1983. Said one top Treasury Department official: "The logjam has been broken. I do not think the Fed has changed course significantly, but if this is the psychological reassurance the market needs, we'll take...
...There was fire on three sides with only the stretch straight down to the on can still clear. A row of homes on the beach were ablaze and the towering flames reflecting off the water had given the ocean a hellish glow. A blanket of putrid smoke obscured the moon, but the roaring inferno and glaring searchlights of the firefighters lit the coast five miles away. I knew that when the fire finally went out. It would leave a great scorched scar across the landscape...
...have been fortunate that former Astronaut Jack Swigert, 51, has once before survived the icy chill of near tragedy. On his 1970 Apollo 13 journey to the moon, an oxygen tank exploded, prompting a harrowing 3½-day journey back to earth. Now Swigert is undertaking another tense battle. He has learned he has bone-marrow cancer. The Republican candidate in next month's election for a newly created congressional district in suburban Denver, Swigert decided that he would keep on with the race and that he would not keep quiet about the disease. Says he: "We have...
...retreat. Danny enters the eerie world of "Homeland" Although he is initially drawn to the group by a woman--Rebecca--whom he meets in a restaurant, he soon fails under the spell of the cult's leader. Neal Kirklander (Peter Fonda). An incredible synthesis of Jim Jones, the Reverend Moon, and Jesus Christ. Kirklander completely dominates his followers lives. At a spacious country estate, he entertains his "guests" in barrack-like dorms and large meeting rooms (With its white-stone facade, the compound looks more like an architect's model than a religious center) They dine on protien-free "moon...