Word: thins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...budgetary concerns. Even now, many top officials, from the White House to Capitol Hill, would like to see these troublesome issues continue to simmer and sputter on a conveniently distant backburner. Conservative leaders, however, are in no mood to wait any longer. "Our patience is wearing a bit thin," says Ronald Godwin of the Moral Majority. So Jesse Helms of North Carolina, the New Right's Senate shepherd, has insisted that Majority Leader Howard Baker keep his pledge to provide Senate time for a full debate on the social agenda early in this session...
...addition, the blue sky and open spaces that attracted the area's pioneers 25 years ago are now becoming obscured by industrial parks and a thin layer of smog. Crime is on the rise. The theft of computers and semiconductors has become an estimated $20 million-a-year problem. Housing is scarce and expensive. The price of an average home in Santa Clara County...
...that Kodak claims are "close to theoretical perfection." The camera's electronics and flash systems are powered by a new lithium battery that lasts for 2,000 exposures, easily the life of the camera. Most revolutionary of all is the revolving film pack. The new cameras use a thin, 2½-in. -diameter plastic disc that is priced at $3.19. The disc slips into the camera's hatched back and is turned by a motor for each of its 15 exposures...
...days are over: days when a rocker had a right to expect that the music he made-like Fogerty and his peerless band, Creedence Clearwater Revival-could reach a large as well as a knowing audience; when the radio played a dazzling diversity of music, not a range as thin as the air between two stations. For the first time, under the regency of radio programmers and the tyranny of marketing studies and demographics, rock 'n' roll has been successfully factionalized and fractionalized, smashed into a mass of splinters with few sharp edges. A song for everyone...
...Tall and thin, with a scruffy reddish beard and glasses, Hayes, 29, "and getting older by the minute," did not come to the help of the homeless because he was appointed to the job. He simply took on the responsibility. The Georgetown University graduate first noticed the homeless when he began studying law at New York University, just a bottle's throw from the Bowery. "I shared the common myth about them," he recalls. "I assumed that they lived on the street by choice...