Word: washings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Well, forget it. The Christian Broadcasting Network means to wash all that away in a tide of righteousness. According to a CBN promotion tape, Scott Davidson, quondam hero of CBN's flagship soap opera, Another Life, is not only a media analyst and anchorman of the "7 O'Clock News," he is "unique in the newsroom. Once he was a cynic, like his colleagues a man who was spiritually empty. That's changed. Faith has given Scott the strength to go beyond reporting. Now he gets involved...
...Right causes, which he does indeed care deeply about. But the White House political machinery is not expected to crank up a full-fledged campaign for social and moral legislation. Says a disillusioned Paul Weyrich, chief strategist for the New Right: "Like Pontius Pilate, they just want to wash their hands of the whole thing...
...pilots' conversation supports the leading line of speculation about the causes: the snowy, 24° weather. First Officer Roger Alan Pettit, 31, the copilot, initially expressed concern about the icy conditions, as he would again and again. Twenty minutes after the 737's last glycol wash, Pettit joked: "Maybe we can taxi upside a some [727] sittin' there runnin' [and] blow off whatever [ice and snow have built up on the wings]." Several minutes later Pettit remarked, "It's been a while since we've been de-iced." He remained astonished by the weather...
...which she proposed as the new national emblem. By the time of the next World War, Lillian was convinced that the Communists had driven her poor daughter crazy. And so, in 1944, she declared Frances insane and had her locked up at the Western State Hospital at Steilacoom, Wash...
...Boston is Pirate's Newbor. Other computer users are buying code-cracking programs like Locksmith, which sells for $99.95 from Chicago's Omega MicroWare. Locksmith cracks the coding schemes for most Apple Computer programs and permits them to be copied. Hardcore Computing, a small magazine in Tacoma, Wash., warns pirates about the latest technology that companies are using against them...