Word: overheads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sense that Baghdad is a city at war is most acute at night, when the blackout is strictly enforced. Glimmers of candlelight escaping through a slit in the curtains can arouse outpourings of official ire. Customers in a restaurant one evening heard an explosion overhead. Waiters nervously scurried to put out candles and lanterns. When the patrons went outside to find out what had happened, there were no planes to be seen. As the diners went back inside to resume their meal, the unanimous conclusion was that it was not an Iranian raid at all, but a sonic boom caused...
...school that now stands in the middle of the old parade ground. The old fort buildings will be occupied by a fine arts museum, by civic groups and even lawyers' offices. But Vaughan wants to remove the outward appearances of the 20th century-the asphalt streets and overhead phone lines, for example-and bring back nearly everything except the bugles and the intense boredom the soldiers suffered 100 years ago when they were not banging up and down the High Plains or getting drunk in San Angelo...
...days later, the irrepressible Vinogradov got a similar lecture from the speaker of the Majlis, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. As the two men entered the parliament building in downtown Tehran, Iraqi Soviet-built MiG-23 fighters roared overhead. "What is it we hear?" asked Vinogradov. "Your own MiGs," retorted Rafsanjani. Rafsanjani then told Vinogradov that Soviet friendship overtures would get nowhere so long as Moscow supported Baghdad and the puppet regime in Afghanistan. TIME has learned that the Iranians believe Moscow knew of the Iraqi attack beforehand, and did not inform Tehran because it saw an opportunity to widen...
...this winter's heating-oil bill. Meanwhile, Roger Christensen, an Ogden, Iowa, hog farmer, finds wild gyrations in interest rates to be his trouble. He finances poultry, pork and corn production with variable interest rate bank loans, and consequently no longer knows what his overhead will be from one season to the next. Says he: "I don't think the average voter can understand the economy, and I certainly don't have the solutions. But no candidate is even addressing that issue...
...Horne, 6-2, 6-4, in the semi-finals, and then came from way behind to nip Mike Terner in the finals, 7-5, 1-6, 7-6. Terner fought back from a 4-1 deficit in the final tiebreaker, only to lose the final point on a clutch overhead smash by the Midshipman...