Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years ago, Mark Baltes, a 28-year-old electrician, was killed by a hit-and-run driver. A possible suspect, unknown to the police, hired attorney Barry Krischer to represent him. But after agreeing to plea bargain with prosecutors, Krischer was himself brought to trial by Baltes parents--as part of a $6 million damage suit--in an attempt to discover his client's name...
...that do not reflect radar pulses. But these materials make workers ill -- or so claim scores of employees at Lockheed's Burbank, Calif., plant, home of Stealth. In a lawsuit, the workers complain that a panoply of ailments -- rashes, aches and pains, nausea, memory loss -- is being caused by unknown toxic agents in Stealth materials. Lockheed vice president John Brizendine insists that "we have seen nothing to indicate the materials we work with . . . pose a health hazard, providing proper procedures are followed." Nonetheless, two teams of federal investigators are poking around the Burbank plant...
...other emulative exercises lacked, namely wit. Not that there are laugh lines in Another Woman. But the subtlety of its structure and the tender irony with which it contemplates an emotionally guarded woman being drawn into confrontation with her past demonstrate lucidity and compassion of an order virtually unknown in American movies...
Russell said last night she "had a feeling" the candidates are already trying to gather support for next year's election, adding there was much speculation on who will take Sullivan and Graham's seats. If unknown candidates were to gain the seats, she said, they are likely to be different from current Councillors--"a little more conservative than the liberal CCA, [but] not the old guard...
...election effort is that it is. Under Texas law, Bentsen can run for both the vice presidency and the Senate. He spends nearly a third of each day giving local interviews and another third raising money. Bentsen will rope in $8 million for his Senate race against a virtual unknown. That money can be used for precinct-level registration and get-out-the-vote efforts, which are what win in Texas. Democrats are telling voters to pull the lever twice for Bentsen on Nov. 8. But the Republicans have a subtler strategy. Get two Texans for the price...