Word: hovering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...evidence pointed to an ominous new stage in the Ethiopian calamity, in which 7.5 million people hover on the brink of starvation. Some 3,000 Ethiopian refugees are descending each day on Sudanese relief centers, and anywhere from 250,000 to 350,000 additional refugees may arrive in the next < two months. Says Nicholas Morris, representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum: "We have had 125,000 new arrivals in the past year, 70,000 since November. We need food as fast...
...floodlit tower clock behind him informed viewers only that he was not appearing live but on tape. Brokaw was, however, providing visible proof that NBC, like its network rivals, had spent a reported $500,000 to enable its analysts, dozens of support staffers and tons of equipment to hover near the big story of the day--even if that story was almost entirely nonvisual and the participants refused to talk to the press until it was over. Brokaw wryly implied to viewers that his intrepid-correspondent posture might be a bit silly: "You may be thinking that this...
...Thailand, expansion has also been constrained by conservative economic policies. The government has restricted the money supply and imposed import controls to combat a worrisome trade deficit that was almost $4 billion last year. Narongchai forecast that growth would hover at its current level of about 5.5% through 1985. Looking at the long term, he voiced concern that half of Thailand's population of 49 million is less than 20 years old. The influx of young people into the work force may aggravate unemployment, which now stands...
...white temple it is always quiet. No lobbyists or reporters hover about the paneled chambers; tall bronze gates seal off the cool marble passageways from the public. The black-robed Justices emerge onto the high bench only to hear the arguments of deferential lawyers, and then vanish again behind a thick velvet curtain. They deliberate in secret, insulated and remote from the hurly-burly of American politics...
...ferocious battle of wits ensues. On one side: Buckaroo (Peter Weller) and the members of Team Banzai. On the other: Dr. Emilio Lizardo (John Lithgow), once a brilliant physicist, now the vilest, battiest extraterrestrial in all the genre. Meanwhile, the benevolent rulers of Planet 10 hover above New Jersey in a craft that looks like the Mollusk from Outer Space, dispensing wisdom and even more confusion. Where will it lead? Most likely to nuclear annihilation. Already the President of the U.S. is opening a dread, eyes-only packet that reads DECLARATION OF WAR: THE SHORT FORM...