Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...DeLoreans sold in the U.S. are beginning to disappear from American roads because of the lack of spare parts. But the car has not totally receded from the popular imagination. In last summer's megahit movie Back to the Future, the supercharged auto that carries Marty McFly back to the 1950s is a converted DeLorean, specially equipped for time travel...
...cemetery, preceding a rooster's tail of dust. The women would hug one another, and the men who were not teetotalers would find some reason to roam off together into the woods, returning in a short while flush faced and very happy. The day, a hot late- summer afternoon, just sort of hung still in that stop-time fashion one associates with grandmothers' kitchens--and conversations therein...
...rainy scene. The rocker was also asked to cover her close-cropped coif with a long red wig. "It went with a fiery personality," explains Winkler. Right now Lennox is drying out her pipes in preparation for a new album and a worldwide tour that will begin next summer. By then, any emotional chords she strikes are sure to be voiced in a proper Scots burr...
Perhaps, but the hints are nonetheless alluring. During the second round of the Geneva talks last summer, Soviet Negotiator Victor Karpov informally suggested that Moscow might be willing to cut its arsenal of missiles and bombers by as much as 40%, including for the first time nuclear "charges," meaning warheads. In the past, the Soviets had agreed to limit only launchers, which allowed their missiles to be loaded up with multiple warheads. The Soviets also alluded to setting a ceiling on the number of land-based missiles. The U.S. considers these big "silo busters" to be the most destabilizing element...
Jobs' departure caps months of turmoil that has shaken Apple to its core. The maker of home and office computers lost $17 million in its most recent quarter, the first red ink in the company's history. The firm is still recovering from a sweeping corporate housecleaning this summer in which 1,200 of Apple's 5,850 employees were let go. The company's woes, moreover, have occurred against a backdrop of sluggish sales throughout Silicon Valley and the entire computer industry. The beleaguered firm thus cannot take lightly even the symbolic threat posed by Jobs' new company, which...