Word: caps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hitting punch disappeared in the night cap, but if absence didn't matter Sophomore hurler Jett Musselman struck out to while tossing a three hit shutout...
...states that border on the gulf belatedly decided to meet in Kuwait to search for a solution to the problem, but the politics of the 2½-year-old Iran-Iraq war quickly got in the way. At week's end there was no agreement on how to cap the gushers, much less on how to clean up the resulting mess. Even as the ministers spoke, patches of tar started to wash up on Bahrain's sandy beaches...
...they had offered Texan Red Adair, the world's best-known oil troubleshooter, $1 million to supervise a repair effort, but that he refused to work under war-time conditions. The immense slick developed, says a Western diplomat in Bahrain, because "no one will go out there and cap a well unless he's sure he is not going to be shot...
...record holder: a 1979 spill off the east coast of Mexico that took nine months to cap...
...scholarly, soft-spoken Muslim given to wearing the beaded cap and flowing white robes traditional to northern Nigeria, Shagari, 57, looks more like a poet than a veteran of the rough-and-tumble of politics. In fact, he is both, although he confesses that he has had little time for verse since becoming President. Active in politics even before Nigeria became independent from Britain in 1960, he was one of the architects of Nigeria's new constitution, which was modeled after that of the U.S. and went into effect...