Word: alaska
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Written by David Pearson, 31, a doctoral candidate in sociology at Yale University, the article argues that the KAL crew was unbelievably negligent if it went so far off course without realizing it, and that American experts who track aircraft and eavesdrop on radio transmissions from Alaska to the Far East were even more incredibly incompetent if they failed to spot the errant flight. He contends that these specialists must have been particularly alert since they were aware of preparations by the Soviets to test a new missile on Aug. 31 aimed at the Kamchatka Peninsula, where the airliner first...
...kabuki. The plan: Alabama, the first state on the roster alphabetically, will yield to Nevada, so that Senator Paul Laxalt, the party's general chairman, can put Reagan's name in nomination for the third time (Reagan lost out to Ford in 1976). The next state up, Alaska, will yield to the President's home state of California, so that Governor George Deukmejian can nominate Bush. Arizona, the third state in line, will promptly move to close nominations. Then there will be a single roll call to endorse the Reagan-Bush ticket...
...elegant white walls of her fine house do not have crayon marks or grape jelly on them. But motherhood is a sentence without parole-have some guilt with your chicken soup; eat, eat!-and Bombeck and her fans have no trouble understanding each other. "I could move up to Alaska," she says, "where the nearest neighbor is 300 miles away, get there by dog sled, walk into the cabin, pour a cup of coffee and then hear her say, 'These kids are driving me crazy...
...destroy themselves," says Fran, who practices moderation. "They either drink or drug it all away." Two airlines service Barrow. Their cargo bays are filled with booze. The town is dry-it used to be wet, with a package store that deposited $4,000 a day in earnings in the Alaska National Bank of the North, the only bank in town, but people were getting drunk, staggering off on the tundra and freezing to death, so it was voted dry. Now the only way to get a drink is to order spirits in from outside. People call liquor stores that service...
...gutsy nut, more guts than brains, some say. But there were so many things that were not here, and what was here was a monopoly and crummy. There still is no Laundromat, no bowling alley, no skating rink." A skating rink in Alaska...