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Word: airport (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their refrigerator is so old it could walk on its own, in Naked Gun, the food actually does make its way across the top of a refrigerator. But since the movie is spoofing TV rather than the movies, it lacks the more ambitious structure and plot that the Airport movies provided for Airplane...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Going Great Guns | 12/2/1988 | See Source »

...border change despite the violence committed against Armenians next door. Twice the Soviet government has had to dispatch troops to Yerevan to quell disturbances. Last July a boy was killed by a plastic bullet and 36 people were wounded during a confrontation with soldiers at Yerevan's Zvartnots Airport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armenia | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

...abroad. Still, this option isn't open to everyone, and it requires foresight in September of freshman year. Also, with 16 required concentration courses, as well as the unavoidable eight Core classes (which can only be met at Harvard), I don't even have time to drive to the airport. Summertime is the only option left, but many students--myself included--need these months to earn money for tuition...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Doctoroff, | Title: Stay At Home Curriculum | 11/19/1988 | See Source »

...Following an emergency Cabinet meeting, Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi dispatched some 1,600 troops to restore order in Male and commanded navy warships to head toward Maldivian waters. Paratroopers arrived less than twelve hours later, landing aboard two Soviet-built IL-76 transport aircraft at the national airport on Hulule, a few hundred yards off Male. Within minutes the mercenaries began racing back to their mother ship. On Sunday the mercenaries surrendered after an Indian frigate fired on the freighter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Maldive Islands Heading Them Off at the Atoll | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

...road from Bombay's airport to the center of town extended for miles and miles through slums that would be unimaginable in the United States. Clutter was everywhere, the clutter of debris and people, an oppressive mass of oppressed people. But the taxi ignored the swarming of the bicycles and pedestrains, sped by the omnipresent shanties and hovels and zoomed to more palatable places...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Coming of Age in Bombay | 11/10/1988 | See Source »

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