Word: airport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fated decision to house the men in a single barracks. The invasion of Grenada did little to burnish the Corps's fabled reputation as the "first to fight." Owing to the demands of interservice glory sharing, only 36 minutes after the Marines landed at Pearls airport, the rival Army Rangers parachuted onto the airstrip at the other end of the island at Point Salines. It was a successful operation, and the Marines did themselves proud, but it raised questions about their unique role as the nation's elite amphibious strike force. And fairly or not, the Iranian arms fiasco...
...episode ended happily yesterday when Suzanne C. Oaks, a high school senior from Mobile, Alabama, and a Yard camper, called her father from the airport on her way home to learn that she had been granted a place in the class...
OBLIVIOUS TO the world, I walked into the store with my walkman headphones on. I passed through some sort of metal detector I had been accustomed to seeing only in airports. Unlike the airport checkpoints, this barrier did not have a customs official with a gun standing by, nor was there a sign that said "inappropriate comments about bombs and explosives may result in arrest." (By the way, what is an appropriate comment about bombs or explosives...
...very much like the airport checkpoints, this columnway did do strange things to my walkman as I walked through. I don't remember exactly what happened, but the tape diverged from the music I had been listening to and played the message "worship the devil and serve your relatives for breakfast at the Union...
...list of serious contenders may be quickly pared by the SSC's + requirements: 16,000 acres of donated land, a flow of between 500 and 2,200 gallons of water a minute and up to 250 megawatts of power, as well as accessibility to a major airport, so the world's scientists can fly in and out. According to Scientific American, the front runners in the accelerator SSC race appear to be Illinois, California, Texas, Washington, Colorado, Ohio and Utah...