Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...extra day in space probably added significantly to the mission's cost -NASA would not say by how much - but it provided 20 hours more to collect scientific data. During that extra time, Columbia's instruments monitored a surprise eruption of a huge solar flare, a fiery burst of hot gases from the sun's surface. Such plumes often reach thousands of miles into space and give off a flood of charged particles that can play devilish tricks on spacecraft. In 1979, Skylab, NASA'S abandoned space workshop, came crashing prematurely to earth after its orbit...
After tearing apart the junior varsity pitching his freshman year and sitting on the bench for all but the tail-end of his sophomore season. Chicarello burst into the headlines with a truly incredible performance in the Crimson's three-way playoff against Yale and Cornell two years...
...heralded not with a bang but with a burst of light. The 35,000 baseball fans in Tiger Stadium watching a game gasp in unison at the preternatural dazzle. The people in the stands who face the fireball are blinded by it. An instant later they and the rest of the crowd are on fire. But the pain ends quickly: the explosion's blast wave, like a super-hardened wall of air moving faster than sound, crushes the stands and the spectators into a heap of rubble...
...made radioactive fallout negligible, and people close enough for immediate doses of radiation first succumb to other injuries. More than 250,000 Detroiters were within 2½miles of ground zero; nearly all are now dead. Pedestrians and drivers are incinerated in a molten slag of cars. Skyscrapers burst and fall. Nearly 20 sq. mi. of the city are leveled...
...only one of many vital commodities that underwent spectacular price increases in the 1970s. But slow growth, and now recession, has burst the bubble in one raw material after another. Copper prices, for example, have plunged to 76? per lb. from 89? a year ago, badly burning unlucky speculators in the process...