Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...today is a big business ($30 billion in annual revenues) as well as an enormous bureaucracy (780,000 employees). For months the Postal Service board has been looking for a replacement for outgoing Postmaster General Albert V. Casey, a former airline executive who streamlined an unwieldy management during his brief seven-month tenure. Last week the board picked Preston R. (Bob) Tisch, 60, president of Loews Corp. in New York City...
...Friday, August 15, The Crimson will complete its summer schedule and take an ever-so-brief respite until we resume publication for the 350th celebration in early September...
...injury . . . the crew possibly, but not certainly, lost consciousness in the seconds following orbiter breakup." The maximum acceleration forces felt by the astronauts as their cabin was blown away from the explosion--estimated at 12 to 20 Gs, or 12 to 20 times the force of gravity--were "quite brief," Kerwin added, and "survivable." Even if the sealed crew compartment had ruptured and depressurized, he said at a news conference last week, the crew could have remained conscious for six to 15 seconds. If the cabin remained intact, though, they may have been conscious for nearly three terrifying minutes...
Edward Lee Howard was "given the right of residence in the U.S.S.R. for political" and humanitarian reasons, the paper said in a brief announcement on its back page...
...managed to unite the most curious mixture of labor unions, fascist military men, left-wing guerrillas and a host of other disparate elements into a movement that has lost its cohesion in the 31 years since Peron was overthrown and in the 12 years since he enjoyed another brief stint as head of state before he died in 1974.) And while Bonafini insists that the group has no plans to become an official political party or propose a candidate for Congress, their broadening political scope has begun to lead some pundits to such speculation...