Word: airing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time Operation Lifeline grew alarmed enough at the escalating shortages in mid-April to press Khartoum to reopen southern air strips and drop zones, it did not have enough chartered planes to make deliveries: it had just one C-130 Hercules, which can carry 16 tons of cargo, and two smaller Buffalos. At the end of April, the Sudanese government grudgingly gave clearance for three more chartered C-130s. Soon four big Ilyushin-76s (cargo capacity: 32 tons) are also to be allowed in. With this beefed-up air service, deliveries will soon reach 10,000 tons a month. That...
...like to flex their muscles. Nick Evans, owner of Spartan Communications, a CBS affiliate, was miffed when some advertiser-friends of his had trouble getting into the Late Show with DAVID LETTERMAN. Seats were found for them eventually but apparently not fast enough. Evans yanked the show off the air for a week on the six stations he runs because of "the arrogance of the Letterman organization and the weak ratings," he says. Viewers were treated instead to infomercials, reruns of Married...with Children and Judge Judy. Perhaps that's why a local lawyer filed an informal complaint against Evans...
Susan Yeh '00 is a History of Science concentrator. She has left her beautiful home in Kansas to fight air pollution and hurdle over dog droppings in Taipei, Taiwan...
Somehow the situation resolved itself, and the crowd returned to its respective territories. Night fell and the fireworks commenced. There were red glares and bursts in the air, and, as the music swelled, the massive crowd cheered the two hundred and twenty second birthday of America and the ideals for which she stands. Life. Liberty. The Pursuit of Happiness...
First, a tsunami inhales. The water that once caressed the shore is sucked away; fish flop gasping in unexpected air; harbor boats are dashed to splinters on the sudden sand. For five minutes or perhaps 30, the sea is empty as the great wave rolls in. Out in the deep it was no more than a foot high, swift and imperceptible; now, forced into standing straight by the ascending slope of the ocean floor, it is 20 feet. Or a hundred. And it will pound down on places the gentle tides have never touched...