Word: window
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter's sense of morality is no more Southern Baptist than the sun outside my window is Pasadenan. Universal laws deserve universal recognition...
...reliable barometer of Washington's relations with Peking has been the visa window at the U.S. consulate in Taipei. When American diplomatic activity with the mainland Chinese steps up, so do applications from Taiwanese for U.S. residency permits. Right now business is brisk...
...began to aid the Christians as well as various conservative Muslim groups that were fighting the left-wing parties and the Palestinians. Publicly, Jerusalem made a big show of the food and medical aid-and even jobs-it began offering Christians from south Lebanon. "This became the 'shop window' of our aid to the Christians," a former Israeli Cabinet minister told Halevy. "But our main interest was the Beirut-Jounieh area and the mountains of Lebanon-the Christian fortress...
...rehiring of 136 laid-off policemen. In all, 75 detectives and 225 uniformed cops worked full time on the case, while another 700 officers volunteered to spend their off-duty hours helping. But while top officers professed optimism, some lower-ranking detectives saw the huge manpower effort as window dressing. They consider the chances of seizing Son of Sam as minimal, unless, however subconsciously, he wants to be caught, is overtaken before he can flee a shooting site or some citizen provides a revealing...
...were young, from 17 to 26. Although three young men were shot, each was with a woman and seemed incidental to the killer's apparent sexual focus. Six of the eight attacks were on parked cars, the gunman approaching from the rear and firing into the front passenger window. Six of the shootings took place on weekend nights. One was as early as 7:30 p.m., the others after midnight. Ballistics tests helped conclude that all eight assaults were almost certainly the work of the same .44 revolver, an easily concealed, short-barreled gun that fires with a loud...