Word: spot
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Reagan's spokesmen insisted that the President-elect was very much in command even if not on the spot. He was keeping in touch by phone and making decisions. He announced one trip before the Inauguration: to Mexico to visit President López Portillo in early January. Beyond that, he had little to say. Explained his chief aide, Edwin Meese: "This is not a time in which you profitably make news. You don't want to lock yourself into policy positions prematurely...
...record, Brando is the character wearing granny glasses and a hearing aid, the one whose fringe of white hair curls cunningly around a large bald spot and whose corpulence is encased in a wardrobe that seems to have been picked up at a thrift sale managed by the estate of Charles Foster Kane. Brando has also got himself up with a down-home country-boy accent that makes his cynicism terribly appealing-especially in the bloody and lugubrious context of this emotionally unpunctuated movie. His performance is not truly good-it lacks a real edge of sharpness...
...that night, or the next day, but a little later, after the terror ebbed and the grief could be managed, Lennon's wife, Yoko Ono, took their five-year-old son Sean to the spot in the apartment courtyard where she had seen his father murdered. She had already shown Sean a newspaper with his father's picture on the front page. She tried to do what everyone else has done since that Monday night. She tried to explain...
With the supply outlook clouding over, oil companies have become reluctant to draw down their inventories. As a result, prices have begun to rise for both crude and a variety of refined products like heating and diesel oil and gasoline. The little oil now being sold on the spot market is commanding about $40 per bbl. The price of heating oil on the East Coast is expected to increase from about $1 per gal. to perhaps $1.25 per gal. by early next year. Those rising prices are themselves encouraging cartel members to seek crude oil increases, thus intensifying the vicious...
...wound around Holyoke Center, where the hearing was taking place. "At that point, so many people were on suspended suspension that everyone had paper bags with Dean May's face on them over their heads," Hemphill recalls. She joined the picket, but failed to bring proper masquerade attire. Someone spotted her and notified CRR, in session on the tenth floor. It decided on the spot, Hemphill's tutor later told her, to knock her penalty up one notch from "suspended suspension" to "suspension...