Word: traced
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...United States because of her physiology will find in the PMS defense ample support for their views. In light of the scanty evidence, then, we must vigorously resist blaming a woman's irrational behavior on her biology. Until much more data on PMS is available, we must continue to trace acts of violence like Santos's to aberrant emotions, rather than to built-in biological flaws...
...Outside the window, peasants with produce, families with hampers, and soldiers with duffles reinforce this sense of travelers' limbo. We are insubstantial, unaffiliated. The Russians, much to our disappointment, do not stamp our passports. When we finally leave the country, they collect our visa form and leave us no trace...
Early last March an anonymous caller told police in Ventura, 40 miles northwest of Los Angeles along the Pacific Coast, that a "Mr. Morgan" had been overheard talking about transporting large sums of money across state lines. Suspecting an illegal cash-laundering operation, Ventura detectives tried to trace Morgan. The trail led to Morgan Aviation, an aircraft repair shop in a leased hangar at Mojave Airport on the edge of the Mojave Desert, 90 miles north of Los Angeles. The company was operated by William Morgan Hetrick, who used his middle name as his first. Ventura police notified...
...conceivable that De Lorean put no mare than $20,000 from his own pocket into the company at the start. He has claimed to have invested as much as $3 million, but one man familiar with the operation says, "No one's been able to trace that money." Because it was his idea and his magnetism that made it happen, De Lorean was able to negotiate with the investors to keep a controlling interest in the business...
John was a scrawny smalltown boy troubled by asthma, psoriasis and a stammer, a trace of which persists to this day. He knew before his tenth birthday that he wanted to be a writer. He left his rural home for four years at Harvard, one at Oxford and two as a reporter for The New Yorker. Although he gave up his staff job, Updike and the magazine have remained best of friends. Fees paid for his fiction and other contributions over the years allowed Updike to keep on writing, freeing him from the need to look for teaching jobs...