Word: rears
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Oliver North, Robert McFarlane and John Poindexter appeared on Capitol Hill, the prospect of indictments loomed over them. Even before Poindexter testified last week, his lawyer announced that the rear admiral was already the target of a criminal investigation. If any of the central figures are in fact indicted, what charges are they likely to face...
Even after the Iran-contra affair thrust him into the headlines last November, Poindexter maintained his silence. He quietly resigned from the National Security Council and pleaded the protection of the Fifth Amendment when initially called before congressional investigators. He accepted a lowering in rank to rear admiral and the loss of one of his three stars. To remain a vice admiral, Poindexter, 50, would have had either to take early retirement or transfer to a job requiring Senate confirmation. Said a colleague: "Can you imagine him taking the Fifth at his own confirmation hearing...
...studying to become a stockbroker. "I made tapes of the texts and took notes while I listened on the drive to and from work," explains Jenson, who is now a broker in the Westwood office of Merrill Lynch. "It's amazing that I didn't hit anyone." Using the rear-view mirror, many men shave with electric razors and women often apply their makeup. Some people even dress behind the wheel. Janice Conover, a Hampton Jitney Co. bus driver who regularly plies the Long Island Expressway (popularly known as the Long Island Parking Lot), has seen motorists so engrossed...
...Becker has grown physically, a part of his original appeal has diminished. Last week, vaulting the net after winning the Stella Artois at Queens Club, he placed his arm about Jimmy Connors' shoulders and positively dwarfed him. On tough points in the past, Becker has been inclined to rear up in celebration like a frisky and defiant Connors, but the effect is somehow unseemly now for the most powerful stallion in the herd...
...general, he wishes that you see the world generously, that you take note of and rail against all the Lebanons of violence, the Africas of want, but that you also rear back and bless the whole. This is not as hard to do as it may seem. Concentrate on details, and embrace what you fear. The trick is to love the world as it is, the way a father loves a daughter, helpless and attached as he watches her stretch, bloom, rise past his tutelage to her independent, miraculous ascendancy. But you must never let go entirely, as he will...