Word: panning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...11th to the 13th century in the Middle East, only his victims are random and spread over the entire map. The primary tool of his effort to achieve Islamic unity and the elimination of Israel is terrorism. Gaddafi regards himself not only as the last great hope of pan-Islam but as the scourge of the West, which he fervently believes has humiliated the Arab world for centuries. It is a humiliation he intends to avenge...
...keep debris out of the headers may also look familiar: they're soda cans sawed in half. Finally, a newcomer will be appalled to see Garlits flip a lighted match into a pool of alcohol under his new dragster. It's a makeshift Sterno to heat up the oil pan so the engine doesn't have to start cold...
...least half his wish. He grew "sadder and older" but no more willing to adapt to the demands of the world than he had been as a teenager. The price paid for this refusal becomes ominously clear in The Collected Letters. It is one thing for Peter Pan never to grow up. A poet with a wife, three children and a dependency on booze cannot afford that luxury. His letters requesting, demanding, begging for money grew increasingly embarrassing. "I am a deserving cause," he insisted. He hit on the scheme of "getting my living-money from people and not from...
Kansas City is the center of the sticky craze, and the pioneer there is the T.J. Cinnamons Bakery, opened in the Ward Parkway Shopping Center in January 1985. T.J.'s workers shaped the ball of dough (called by some a brain) into buns and baked them nine to a pan in full view of the public. The proud creators were Ted and Joyce (thereby the initials T.J.) Rice, he a television cameraman and she an elementary-school teacher. After tireless testings of their recipe on friends, they arrived at the right formula. "I thought it should have a high center...
With far fewer Americans to shuttle across the Atlantic, several major airlines will be stung by the shift in travel plans. The likeliest victims are financially struggling Pan Am and TWA, which depend on transatlantic routes for much of their revenue. Eastern Airlines has put on hold the start-up of a new route from Miami to Madrid. The reason: lack of business. Says Hal Rosenbluth, president of a Philadelphia travel agency: "I think the public tends to perceive the U.S. flag carriers as targets." The airlines most immune to the slump are national carriers of northern European countries, which...