Word: alas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...because of his penchant for stiff sentences. "Those of us who do have a religion are sick of being saps for money- grubbing preachers and priests," Potter angrily told the defendant. Bakker, 49, was quickly bound in handcuffs and leg-irons and driven to a federal facility in Talladega, Ala., to begin serving his time. He is to be transferred to a medium-security medical center in Minnesota and assigned to its work crew. Unless the conviction or sentence is reversed on appeal, he will stay behind bars for at least ten years before becoming eligible for parole...
...fastest riser on record," says Ron Moore, an astronomer at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. So fast, in fact, that astronomers are betting on 1990 or perhaps even later this year, instead of 1991, as the beginning of the maximum. And what a maximum it could be. Despite the ferocity of the March flares, Moore warns, "this cycle is still in its early phase. It's got quite a way to go." Solar buffs are speculating it might approach the violence reached by the 1957-58 maximum, which touched off five disruptive geomagnetic superstorms and vivid...
...Ala Michael "Trig" Tarazi '89 is a person of contrasts: madcap humor and solemnity, nationalism and iconoclasm...
...contest is part of an even bigger bonanza for B.A.S.S. Inc., a Montgomery, Ala.-based company that stages the professional bass-fishing tour and dominates this arcane but fast-growing sport (estimated total U.S. bass anglers: 26 million). B.A.S.S. sets the tournament rules, controls lucrative - sponsorships, handles the marketing and covers the events in its own array of periodicals. The company promotes its contests with a weekly cable-TV show, The Bassmasters, and operates a thriving network of 2,000 amateur fishing clubs...
...required by such countries as Denmark and Canada. Two types of condoms, LifeStyles Extra Strength with Nonoxynol-9 (a spermicide) and LifeStyles Nuda Plus, flunked the test 10% of the time. Consumer Reports labeled many of the samples "grossly defective." A spokesman for their manufacturer, Ansell Inc. of Dothan, Ala., declared, "Consumer Reports does not understand condoms." As for the Nonoxynol-9 product, the company said that the magazine's testers were using condoms that Ansell had voluntarily recalled because of defects...