Word: outerness
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...intent. Last week the Justices had an opportunity to chip away further at official immunity in a major case involving former President Richard Nixon. They held back, however. By a 5-to-4 vote, they ruled that Presidents retain absolute immunity as long as they are acting within the "outer perimeter" of their official duties...
...current caper revives SPECTRE, the Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion, which Bond supposedly felled years ago, along with its malevolent leader, Ernst Stavro Blofeld. SPECTRE is determined this time around to gain control of outer space. Its machinations include a wave of hijackings for huge ransoms and the manufacture of ice cream spiked with a mind-bending drug. Bond and the luscious daughter of an old colleague man age to penetrate the organization's 150-sq.-mi. Texas ranch headquarters, only to face death at the hands of killer ants, man-eating pythons and other unfriendlies...
...Mother claps her hands, hoping to instill in her child a normal preadolescent faith in a non-existent fantasy world where mythical beings prance. Gertie enthusiastically pounds her little mitts together. Unlike Mom, she knows that in her closed is a small, brown, baggy-skinned, wide-eyed creature from outer space...
...nothing more than James Arness dressed up to look like a rutabaga with legs, galumphing around an Arctic research station, scaring the wits out of its personnel. Now the scientists' camp has moved to Antarctica, and the Thing is no longer a thing. It still comes from outer space, but instead of being a monster, it is a kind of infection worming its way into animal forms, turning them into monsters...
...employed people by building nuclear power plants across the country." she remembers. They prepared extensively to defend the plan's environmental consequences, saying "we had 20 or 30 pages on why nuclear waste was the greatest thing We were going to glassify it, send it to outer space...