Word: controller
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...giant sidekick, Ryan orders him and his fiancee killed the next day for fear they'll "sing." He is a nasty bastard--when his lover laughs at him, he leaves in a rage. "You'll make her crawl, Tommy thought. In time, she'll know you are the boss. Control. Be cool...
...crime and killing, just enough story, to give people excuses for jealousy and hate. The murders and the bank jobs don't take up more than ten pages total, and there aren't any interminable accounts of the planning. Motive is what interests Hamill--the need for power and control, the need for a stomping ground, consumes his character. He "swaggered through the bar and the mostly teen-age crowd moved out of his way. He smiled and thought of it as the parting of the Red Sea." Almost nobody loved Tommy Ryan, but most people feared him, till they...
...basis of the Teeter figures, the G.O.P. hopes for dramatic gains in Congress. There is an outside chance of winning control of the Senate, where the party now has 41 seats. There is only a faint possibility of securing a majority in the House, where the Democrats outnumber their rivals 275 to 159. But if the G.O.P. takes a fair number of seats, it would be in a position to control both chambers in 1982, for the first time since...
...mind-boggling array of expensive protective instruments is now on the market, ranging from $375 bulletproof vests for executives conducting shareholders meetings to $16,000 electronic tracking systems that help trace a kidnap victim. A particularly nervous tycoon could buy from CCS Communication Control Inc. for $200,000 the security-studded 1979 silver-gray Cadillac that was once ordered by the Shah of Iran but never delivered. For $1,500 more, his chauffeur could take a four-day evasive-driving course in Summit Point, W. Va., that teaches high-speed handling and bootleg turns to escape terrorist blockades. The head...
Sometimes, of course, he does not get there at all. When the court handed down its "seven dirty words" decision two years ago, Stevens wrote for the majority in giving the Government a potentially broad new right to control what comes over the air waves. In the two major affirmative action cases he has participated in, one involving medical school admissions and the other a construction grants set-aside, Stevens has voted against the programs...