Word: crested
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chief elements of the bill have been floating around Capitol Hill since 1982. But pressure for action did not crest until this year, when the deteriorating Mexican economy increased the already heavy flow of illegal aliens across the Rio Grande. U.S. border patrols are expected to apprehend some 1.8 million illegal aliens this year, 500,000 more than in 1985. By some estimates, for every person caught, another will get through. Meanwhile, public outcries against terrorism and drug traffic translated into a fear of open borders to the south. "It was a combination of things," said Representative Leon Panetta...
...spookiest manifestations of modern emotional life, sang songs that turned grim tidings into deadpan jokes and disaffection into disarming social parables. Byrne's lyrics played four-wall handball with anomie and, floating all around the band's cunning and enterprising rhythms, moved the Heads past punk and over the crest of rock's new wave into a forefront they had sharpened up for themselves...
Basinger found that the forest was indeed dense: the stumps are only about ten paces apart, and some are as much as six feet across. "Along the edge of the hill and up on the crest," he says, "are dozens, maybe hundreds of stumps." Basinger also made "an incredible find" -- up to 19 distinct layers of stumps. "Each layer is a forest that developed, lived for many centuries and was overtaken by floods of sediments that killed the roots," he says. "They must have been killed off relatively quickly for the roots not to decay, and buried deeply enough...
...acolytes. It was not only the Beatles' music that inspired this love for all things Liverpudlian. It was the discovery of an English city -- working class and influenced by Irish and American adventurers -- that had seen it all and was not easily impressed. A fond parodic cynicism rode the crest of every inflection; a suspicion of all things posh lurked in the slurs and slang. This was the perfect voice to carry pop culture through the mid-'60s, till things went tragic and the Beatles turned into eminences cloistered enough to be their own parodies...
...buyer for the company's movie-production-and-distribution business, its film-processing labs and its 45-acre studio lot near Los Angeles. In June he negotiated a complicated three-way deal in which the studio and film lab were sold to Lorimar- Telepictures (producers of Dallas and Falcon Crest), and the movie, TV and video operations went right back to Kerkorian. Proceeds from those sales might be sufficient to meet the September debt payments, but the terms are still under negotiation...