Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...participants in all three cases face a common dilemma: industrial dangers. Those hazards can be divided into two rough categories: primary and secondary disasters. Primary disasters are the quick explosions, fires or leaks that strike with the surprise of a hurricane, killing instantly and widely. The tragedy last week at Bhopal, when deadly gas escaped from a Union Carbide plant, was of the primary variety. Such violent, large-scale tragedies are dramatic and terrible, but extremely rare, particularly in developed nations like the U.S. The occasional deaths that do occur in those mishaps are almost always confined to employees...
...raising taxes. In a meeting with ranking congressional Republicans, led by Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole and House Minority Leader Robert Michel, the President declared, "I am willing to lead the charge." Reagan was unmoved by the sight of Republicans wincing at his cut-to-the-quick economies. His pungent comment: "I've overcome my distaste for seeing grown...
France 737 jet to Mehrabad Airport last July. But Iran was not so quick to put out the welcome mat early last Tuesday for the latest hijackers. The control tower in Tehran refused at first to give the Airbus permission to land and agreed only after the pilot sent a message that he was running low on fuel. The plane was immediately shunted off to a remote runway and surrounded by heavily armed soldiers, police and emergency vehicles...
...lies in bed, next to his wife, staring at the ceiling, his hands paralyzed, terrified of the darkness and the narrow future ahead of him. There have been a number of fine books written about Viet Nam, but so far music beats fiction in getting to the quick of things. That seems totally appropriate to a so-called rock-'n'-roll war. Perhaps an enterprising producer might put together an album anthology of a dozen of the best Viet Nam songs (Run Through the Jungle, Fortunate Son, Still in Saigon); the profits might fittingly benefit a Viet...
...contract. As costs ballooned, money ran short. Seven weeks into shooting, in a contract dispute with Evans, Coppola walked off the set and flew to Europe; the cast and crew missed their paychecks and refused to work until they were paid in cash. And in exchange for a quick $15 million from the film's distributor, Orion Pictures, Evans relinquished his control over the movie. By the spring of 1984, Evans was suing everybody in sight. But the show went on, and after five years and $47 million, The Cotton Club premiered on Dec. 14, 1984. The rest...