Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...varsity race, Radcliffe lost to Wisconsin by 2.7 seconds--less than a boat length--while covering three quarters of the course without a working "cox box...
...admit two Australian journalists who were covering the presidential visit. The same day, Indonesia summarily expelled a New York Times correspondent, Bangkok-based Barbara Crossette. The reasons in both cases apparently stemmed from the government's sensitivity over foreign-press accounts of Indonesian corruption and human rights violations (see box). Deciding that it was best not to provoke a public showdown, the White House said it would pursue the matter...
There was a plastic bat and a plastic ball, a thick slate plate, and a chalk batters box. At Jon's house, we used to play hard ball--until Jon fouled one back through his kitchen window. Then we had to play whiff there...
...capital, Tripoli, to the "people's bureau" (as Libya calls its diplomatic missions) in East Berlin, which is believed to have dispatched a terrorist to bomb the disco. One message, sent a few hours after the blast, guardedly congratulated the East Berlin bureau for a job well done (see box...
...dustup was stirred by Jeremy Rifkin, a Washington-based gadfly and an implacable foe of genetic engineering (see box), who filed a petition with the USDA demanding suspension of Biologics' license. In issuing that license, Rifkin charged, the department had not only failed to follow federal guidelines for releasing live, genetically altered organisms into the environment but also neglected to conduct an environmental assessment of the risks involved. Stung by the petition and aware of Rifkin's uncanny success in obtaining court injunctions to back his demands, the USDA beat a hasty retreat. Bert Hawkins, administrator of the department...