Word: exceptionally
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...walls are bare in the large office on M Street except for a print of a Norman Rockwell portrait of Ronald Reagan. On a conference table lie nearly 100 letters in careful rows, waiting for signatures. On the desk is a picture frame, but instead of family photographs (wife and three children) it contains a schedule, neatly filled with appointments, six days a week, beginning with a daily 7 a.m. planning meeting with top assistants and ending often at 8 p.m. Next to the schedule is a clock...
...said Reno Taini, a wilderness instructor who discovered the teenagers. During the past 15 months, three other women have been killed on hiking trails in the Point Reyes area. The seven killings had a ritualistic pattern. All but one took place on a weekend or holiday, all the victims except one were women, and most had apparently been forced into a submissive position before being shot with a high-powered weapon. Police believe the killings to be the work of one man. Observes Criminal Psychologist R. William Mathis: "He gets his maximum excitement by mentally terrifying his victims...
...Webster's and American Heritage. Franklin might be less pleased with the OAD because he doesn't appear in it. The editors mysteriously decided to include the spellings of every nation in the world and their capitals (Umtata is the capital of Transkei) but to avoid all personal names except those of the 40 Presidents of the United States. Vice-presidents (too bad for fans of George Mifflin Dallas, Polk's v.p.) don't make it; and Ronald Reagan didn't make press time...
...football player. Football offers a diversion to a grueling, unglamorous existence--the sequences in "Deerhunter" where steelworkers congregate after their shifts in local bars to drink Iron City beers and watch the Steeler game are no figments of the scriptwriter's imagination, they are slices of real Pittsburgh life. Except for the Steeler's die-hard fans, no one will dispute that the Superbowl title by rights ought to be circulated. The Steelers have had their day and now it's someone else's turn. Maybe it will be Houston, they've shown how tough they can be. Maybe...
...Asimov then went on to formulate, in Runaround (1942), what he decreed to be, in the world of science fiction at least, the Three Laws of Robotics: "1) A robot may not injure a human being, 2) A robot must obey the orders given it by a human being except where such orders would conflict with the First Law, 3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second...