Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ABILENE, Texas--A military refueling jet bound for Hawaii with 19 people aboard crashed in a ball of flames on takeoff yesterday at Dyess Air Force Base, killing at least 17 people, the Air Force said...
...assigned, at 21, to take charge of logistics at a base in West Germany, with 60 German civilians working under him. He rose to the rank of captain, then went to Korea as commandant of a school, where he trained Korean soldiers to work with the U.S. Army. "I learned to be comfortable taking command," he says. Indeed, those who have been with him in political or lobbying efforts say he is the type people turn to when a decision needs to be made...
...each, and a semester of labs--the last two years of college can, therefore, be filled with only three chemistry half-courses if a student wishes. These requirements are what those of the other sciences ought to look like. A student must take what is necessary for a knowledge base, but that student can also avoid all upper-level courses...
...Each House member, for example, receives $411,099 to hire aides as well as a sum ranging from $105,000 to $360,000 to rent office space in his district. A minimum of $67,000 is provided for office, telephones and travel back and forth between Washington and home base. Senators receive larger allocations in these categories. In addition, members of both houses have the privilege of sending unlimited free "franked" mail to their constituents (at a total cost of $113 million in 1988) and the use of recording studios located in the Capitol to prepare spots for broadcast...
...Conundrum, her 1974 account of the medical and psychological sex-change procedures that turned James Morris into Jan Morris). It is worth noting that when she writes about the "architectural hodgepodge" and "irresistible activity" of Hong Kong, she does so as a visitor, not as a permanent resident. Home base is a quiet village in Wales where, one can reasonably assume, the feng shui has been good for centuries...