Word: almost
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sort of mishaps that have always plagued air travel; pilot error, leaks, blown tires and engine shutdowns are frequent occurrences. But the Flight 232 disaster was of a different order altogether: a loss of all three of the plane's redundant hydraulic systems at the same moment, rendering it almost impossible to control. FAA investigators are combing a 16-sq.-mi. area of Iowa cornfields for pieces of a fan disk of the plane's No. 2 engine, which was mounted high on the DC-10's tail. They hope that examining the fan disk will help them determine what...
...Voyager's aging cameras and electronic sensors are somewhat impaired, and the probe is so distant that its signals take four hours to travel to earth. Still, scientists expect mounds of fresh data and some 8,000 photographic images, entirely new information about a little known object that is almost four times the size of earth but appears in earthly telescopes only as a fuzzy blue-green ball...
Lithuania's Catholics have also regained church buildings, established their own bimonthly magazine and, as of three weeks ago, are producing a TV show that is seen each Sunday. The man responsible for the new religious freedoms, Mikhail Gorbachev, will visit Italy in November and is almost certain to pay a historic visit to the Polish Pontiff. It would be the first meeting ever between a Pope and a Soviet leader...
...example, children who through a reproductive malfunction receive two copies of chromosome No. 7 from their mother and no copy from their father sometimes suffer from a severely retarded growth rate. Naturally occurring cases of a kidney cancer called Wilms tumor are caused by a missing chromosome. But in almost all cases, the missing chromosome was the mother's, not the father...
...rate reductions and $2.5 billion in new credits. That is much less than the 55% debt relief, or $29.7 billion, that Mexico originally asked for. Under the new agreement, "we shall not see spectacular results from night to morning," Salinas acknowledged in his broadcast. But the agreement produced an almost immediate benefit in restoring some confidence in Mexico's financial stability. Domestic interest rates, which had risen to 56% this year, have fallen 20 percentage points in the past three weeks because financiers anticipated the debt deal. That shift, which will reduce Mexico's cost of financing its budget deficits...