Word: ve
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wife, the tanned 26-year- old has been thinking things over. "I'm second generation in this, you know, and I don't want my kids to be the third." He jiggles a foot and flops one go-ahead from his toes as he talks. "I'm out. I've never been arrested, and I've never used speed; you can't do that and survive what I do. But you really get an adrenaline rush from doing this sort of thing, and I'm an adrenaline junkie. If I wanted to keep on, I could make...
...used a gun more quickly; I wasn't as slow to think it out. I'd just react, which is the way you got to be in this business, you know what I mean?" The stare is direct. "That's one reason I'm getting out, because I've got my kids, and I think about things and don't react the way I used to, and that isn't good in this business. When you're doing it big, you've got to act crazy. A guy is not going to pay you if he don't think...
...gray eyes ask for empathy. "See, I don't have that in me anymore. When my dad got killed, you know, I could stick a gun in somebody's head and not shake and think about it. I can't do that anymore, so I'm getting out. I've got money put aside...
...difficult to figure out why. Concern over illiteracy and the decline of the nation's schools has alarmed the generation of well-educated baby boomers who are now rearing their own children. "This is the most ardent interest on the part of parents that we've seen in a very long time," says Susan P. Bloom, director of the Center for the Study of Children's Literature at Simmons College in Boston...
...federal Marine Mammal Commission cleared NOSC of charges that it had abused dolphins, and Democrat Norman Dicks, a Washington State Congressman who sits on the House Defense Appropriations subcommittee, came away from a classified briefing on the project reassured that the animals "are more reliable than anything else we've got for this assignment...