Word: stray
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Business and personal bankruptcies tripled in the past two years. There are also smaller signs of decay. Humane societies note an increase in reports of stray pets, as owners abandon animals they can no longer afford. Last Friday Jimmy Johnson showed up at a downtown Detroit center with two German shepherd pups. Said Johnson, out of work for two years since he was laid off by Chrysler: "It's either feed the dogs or feed the kids." Public amenities are disappearing: next summer all but the most popular state parks will have to close for lack of funds...
Travelers at London's Victoria Station eyed the police posters, stray bags and packages, and each other, then warily went about their business last week. On busy central London shopping streets, young bobbies stopped shoppers at random and asked to look at their packages and shopping bags. Big department stores were also making random searches of customers' parcels and pockets. Once again the I.R.A. was exploding bombs in London in random acts of terror...
...races were over. Team representatives frenetically tried to find out how their boats had fared, and regatta officials met to consider protests entered by the crews and assess penalties to crews and scullers for buoy violations. The scorers added ten seconds for each buoy beyond which the boat might stray, and then corrected the standings in each category accordingly...
...like Redford. He's on the other side. Redford holds back. He's not a hero, and he doesn't want you to dislike the people he plays. Redford retains a glamorous remoteness and passivity that doesn't stray far from good American-Eagle values. It's stability and studiness. but DeNiro gets to American from a different angle. He works his way up the spine and into the buzzing, seething mass of semi-methodical madness in the brain. He goes as far into his characters as he can go, always probing for that pure, nuclear core of nonfissionable personality...
...stray ring particle smashed the small gearbox that controls the platform's horizontal movements? Or was there a failure in the electronics or perhaps in the gears themselves? No one could say, even after hours of patient long-distance troubleshooting (it takes nearly an hour and a half to send a radio command to the far-off spacecraft). By the next day JPL controllers had found they could at least get the frozen platform to swing through a few degrees of arc, though not smoothly or precisely enough to aim the instruments properly. By moving it through ever larger...