Word: swirl
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bombing of the American embassy annex in East Beirut became a campaign issue, the swirl of political rhetoric threatened to obscure the hard particulars of just what happened and why. Yet the inquiries into the attack have more than a whipped-up partisan urgency: last week a telephone caller, saying he represented the same fanatic Muslim group that claimed responsibility for the embassy bombing, told a leftist Lebanese newspaper that another "big operation will be carried out against American interests soon...
Still, even two border incursions do not make for all-out war. A little perspective is in order. One gets the impression from the swirl of controversy, from the charges and countercharges in the air, that one side is about to banish the Constitution, the other God. Hardly. The battles of the past few weeks amount not to war but to border rectification...
Sears was already in the money business through its credit operation and its Allstate Insurance division, which was founded in 1931, as well as a Sears Savings Bank in Glendale, Calif. But the new subsidiaries put Sears squarely into the mad swirl of financial services. Sears intends to compete not only with banks like Citicorp and Chase Manhattan but also with Merrill Lynch and American Express in offering services like lending and selling stock. Last year the Sears financial-services divisions earned $703 million...
...began his pursuit of history and Jesse Owens with the 100-meter gold medal last Saturday, Carl Lewis, 23, also took off on the most intense eight days of his life. The week before could not have been a greater contrast. In the swirl of publicity and pressure, Lewis rigorously worked at relaxing, tranquilly creating his own world. TIME Correspondent Melissa Ludtke, who first interviewed him six months ago, was permitted a rare chance to enter that world and spend some time with Lewis. Her report...
...that state's primary. In fact, the embassy question is generating much more heat in the U.S. than in Israel, where it is not a prominent political concern at the moment. Israeli leaders are somewhat bemused by the gamesmanship of U.S. politicians and anxious to avoid the swirl of American electoral politics...