Word: antenna
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There were no immediate reports of casualties in Puerto Rico although one man was electrocuted while trying to remove a television antenna as he prepared for the storm Sunday...
...High winds snapped the ship's mast, and it toppled, along with the ship's radar and electronics gear. With 30-ft. waves and 50-knot winds overpowering the vessel, several sailors grabbed life jackets and prepared to abandon ship. But Hazelwood calmed the crew and rigged a makeshift antenna. After radioing shore, he guided the Chester out of the storm. Then, with the safety of his crew and cargo in mind, Hazelwood followed the storm back to New York -- and, to his surprise, ran into a brief storm of criticism from dollar-conscious superiors at Exxon who had wanted...
...West German authorities in October. Seized with them was a cache of arms that included the ultimate boom box: a portable radio packed with a plastic explosive so cleverly concealed that the radio still worked. The wire detonator was fashioned to look under X rays like the radio's antenna. Israelis say the group had planned to blow up an Iberia Airlines flight carrying tourists to Israel...
...week's end NASA's immediate job was clearly delineated: to complete Discovery's mission and bring it safely back to earth. Aboard the spacecraft, the astronauts attended to a few glitches, including a nagging problem in the craft's cooling system and a balky antenna on a communications instrument, which they managed to retract. They worked on science experiments, played tapes of classical and pop music and shot pictures of Pacific thunderstorms, of a lava flow in Ethiopia and of coastal erosion wreaked by Hurricane Gilbert in Yucatan...
...well as pay for it." Another fear is that politicians will grow more insulated from the voters, though campaign managers still put a high priority on human contact. Says Leslie Dach, communications director for Dukakis: "We aren't going to run this campaign from a Winnebago with a big antenna...