Word: spottedness
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Has the economic bane of the 1970s returned to haunt the late 1980s? For several years, inflation has seemed like a vanquished problem of another era. Price increases during the past half-decade have been remarkably small, never more than 5% annually. Vigilant economists have spotted warning signs from time...
That prospect deeply alarms Bostonians, who think the city already has a big enough rat problem. The rodents roam around Chinatown, and were recently spotted in city hall for the first time in memory. Says Mark Iapicca, who runs a parking lot beneath the elevated Central Artery: "There are already...
Students, enjoying the annual Valentine's Day dinner, smiled as the brown and black-spotted bovine passed by and called out remarks--some more good-natured than others--as the employees strolled near.
Then, as the stores were about to close, I spotted it. A tiny heart-shaped address book, no more than three inches high. It was perfect--not too small, not too big, not too showy, not too insignificant, and it was only $3 (about two weeks' allowance).
The front is just outside Kabul. From the center of the city, it is easy to spot a series of outposts -- small, mud-walled fortresses -- on the snowy mountaintops that ring the capital. Soviet and Afghan troops man the redoubts around the clock, watching for guerrilla movement in the valleys...