Word: thinness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year Yohe and wideout Brian Barringer (49 catches, two TDs) were a great act. But who will take Barringer's place as co-pilot of Air Yohe? Neil Phillips, Barringer's back-up last year, caught 14 passes, two for touch-downs. After him, the air arsenal begins to thin. Mark Bianchi, Mike Oehmler and Phillips' varsity basketball teammate, Kevin Collins, are all untried weapons...
...candidates set out for the rallies that are the rite of Labor Day, it was clear that Bush in less than a month has erased the lead Dukakis had enjoyed since mid-spring. The Vice President was able to perform that difficult trick by cracking, with negative attacks, the thin ice of support upon which Dukakis had been gliding. Dukakis is answering in kind. Last week he also rehabilitated his wily Bismarckian strategist, John Sasso, who was banished after confessing complicity in an under-the-table video attack exposing Joseph Biden's borrowed phrases...
...last days of a steamy summer, as pity runs thin, a backlash against beggars is smoldering across the country. Its chief spokesman is New York Mayor Ed Koch, who is urging people to help banish the panhandlers by refusing to give them anything. Koch avers that "many people who panhandle just don't want to work for a living." They are, he insists, addicts, alcoholics and con artists, and those who give them money are easy marks. Sympathetic people would do better to give to established charities, the mayor advises, to ensure that the money be used to help people...
Dodger Stadium, however, is not available for the purpose, and in a growing number of communities, neither is anything else. About 80% of U.S. trash is disposed of by burying it under thin layers of earth at a site known as a landfill. But an estimated half of the landfills in the country have filled and closed in the past decade, leaving about 9,200 with space remaining. Some 6,000 belong to counties, cities and towns. The Environmental Protection Agency projects that one-third of these will run out of space and shut down in the next five...
This time, after not having seen my friend for 18 years, I barely recognized him. He stood in the doorway of his two-room apartment in a sooty housing project. He looked frail, his thin face tanned but deeply furrowed. But his blue-gray eyes still sparkled. On a small table in the corner stood a typewriter. "It is the fifth in 20 years," he said. The police had confiscated the others in attempts to trace samizdat (underground press) articles critical of the regime. The harassment had brought on an ulcer complicated by other stomach ailments. After multiple surgery...