Word: aire
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rebels burned several luxurious homes and sniped at slowly advancing government troops from windows, hundreds of foreigners and wealthy Salvadorans fled the country. The F.M.L.N. even carried the battle to the skies: for the first time in the ten- year-old conflict, the insurgents fired a surface-to-air missile at an air force jet. The sharply escalating violence not only raised fresh questions about Nicaragua's role in arming the Salvadoran guerrillas, but proved an unwelcome irritant for the U.S. and the Soviet Union on the eve of their Malta summit...
Graciousness, Midwestern Style: The extended weekend in Nebraska was the site of two Harvard losses. After falling to host Nebraska, Harvard played well enough to upset All-American Ray Dudley and his Air Force cohorts, but the slick senior hit an off-balance jumper at the buzzer to seize the victory for the Falcons...
...shot of the week goes to junior Ralph James who drilled a three-point jumper with six seconds left to tie the Air Force game. Only an amazing shot by Dudley could salvage the Falcons from having to contend with the charging Crimson in an overtime frame and the embarassment of a Western Athletic Conference team losing to an Ivy League squad...
...writing to express the serious concerns of the Office of Scientific Integrity and the National Institutes of Health regarding headlines that appeared over two stories published by your newspaper on November 16 and 17. The articles concerned the Harvard University "Six Cities Study." The headline of particular concern read, "Air Study May Have False Data, NIH Says." This headline has no basis in fact...
...arts of social activism: lawsuits, petitions, debates, lectures and media manipulations. Each year the three attorneys on the staff of his Washington- based Foundation on Economic Trends file about six lawsuits and threaten more. Among other causes, he has battled surrogate motherhood, animal patenting and agricultural experiments involving open-air use of genetically altered bacteria. He tried to delay the launch of the Galileo spacecraft by warning that a shuttle explosion could rain plutonium on Florida. In Wisconsin he has helped start a boycott of dairy products from cows that are being fed a genetically engineered growth hormone. Indeed, Rifkin...