Word: nearest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opportunity when he heard one. Within days, Austin had presented the plant's owners, North west By-Products Inc., with a relocation offer they could not refuse: a bargain rate for leasing a $350,000 building in an industrial park a quarter of a mile away from the nearest residential home...
...find/ Who's going to cure/ The Heart of a Man in Need." Linda sings: "It's only the pain/ That's keeping you sane/ And gives you the mind to travel on." And together: "Let me ride on/ The Wall of Death/ ... This is the nearest/ To being alive...
...Uniroyal Corp. under a federal contract, says that the grazing land is worth around $1,500 per acre, while the more fertile land may fetch as much as $2,400 an acre. Potential bidders need not worry about the tons of explosives stored elsewhere on arsenal property; the nearest are more than half a mile away...
...nearest approach to Walken's Hamlet in my experience is the snarling and unpoetic one that the overtouted Nicol Williamson came over from England to inflict on us in 1969. For a reminder of how a superb actor can capture 100 facets of Hamlet's nature and meld them into one believable characterization, turn not to the dreadful Olivier film version but to Derek Jacobi's 1980 portrayal for BBC television (which will doubtless be shown here again soon...
This new phase of high-profile censorship began because of a technical problem. Soon after Israel launched its invasion of Lebanon last month, Syrian troops barricaded the road leading to Beirut's satellite transmission station. For network news teams beaming footage to New York City, the nearest reliable "uplink" was in Israel, at the satellite station in Herzliya. Israel agreed to open those facilities-with strings. Censors in Tel Aviv claimed the right to review shots of shattered residential areas and of wounded and dead civilians, on the ground that such scenes constituted "propaganda" for Israel's "primary...