Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...annual greater New Orleans Skylab observation party" were asked to bring binoculars, telescopes and crash helmets. Jay Schatz, owner of a luxury high-rise apartment building on Chicago's Near North Side, scheduled a sub-basement party for tenants that would begin two hours before Skylab was expected to break up. Radio stations eagerly joined the hoopla. Ohio's WNCI-FM in Columbus offered $98,000 to the first Ohioan bringing in a locally found piece of the Skylab wreckage within 98 hours of impact. In Atlanta, callers could win yellow T shirts bearing a bull...
...guerrilla forces added the strategic highway town of Sebaco to their growing list of occupied places. They also destroyed the last national guard garrison in Matagalpa and closed in on Chinandega, one of two major cities in northern Nicaragua not controlled by the rebels. In a desperate attempt to break the Sandinista noose that was tightening around Managua, Somoza launched a major attack against Masaya, 20 miles south of the capital; the government offensive included heavy bombing and strafing as well as the deployment of hundreds of troops from the capital...
...final fight is pretty exciting, no matter how bad the rest of the movie may be. So your best bet is to arrive an hour-and-a-half late, catch the fight at the end, sit through the break between showings and watch the initial bout to refresh your memory. Then you'll be ready for Rocky III--"the story continues a little more...
...spacecraft will break up into approximately 500 pieces, with most weighing less than ten pounds, NASA officials said. However, the air lock shroud weighs 3900 pounds and the lead film safe weighs 5100 pounds. Both objects are likely to strike the earth at speeds greater than 260 miles per hour...
...cheered the decision. Said Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the NAACP: "Had we lost this case, the cause of affirmative action would have been set back ten years." The reaction in many boardrooms was relief. Before the ruling, employers were caught in a bind. If they gave minorities a break to remedy racial imbalance in hiring, they risked suits from rejected whites like Weber. But if they had a racially imbalanced work force and did nothing about it, they risked getting sued by minorities as well as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC); they also stood a chance of losing...