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What energized that compelling performance was the fact that the performer had something to say. Critics mocked The Speech, that cargo of truisms worn to stream-bed smoothness after decades of delivery, but the solidity, and the consistency, of Reagan's basic message acted as political ballast when many another career capsized...
...degrees F. The magnets shoot electrified seawater through a set of jetlike thruster tubes, thus greatly reducing the noise and vibration associated with the traditional rotating propeller. But before this system can be applied commercially, the size of the magnets, which now limits the vessel's speed and cargo space, will have to be reduced...
...lightering, transferring oil to smaller ships. The fires spread and set off more explosions, spewing burning oil and geysers of dense black smoke. With its stern slowly dropping as it filled with leaking oil, the Mega Borg seemed likely to sink, a calamity that might have released its entire cargo; if so, the prevailing currents would apparently have carried the spilled oil toward one of the nation's largest estuary systems, including a vast wildfowl refuge...
...days. Some oil-containment equipment was flown from London. Experts and other gear came from Alaska and Seattle. Mexico was asked to send a huge oil-gobbling skimmer. And while the Rotterdam firm hired Texas boats and seamen to help out, a French company, which owned the oil cargo, recruited cleanup crews in Louisiana. With considerable understatement, Linda Maraniss, regional director of the Center for Marine Conservation, observed, "There was a general confusion about where the equipment was and who was in charge...
Within days, the Vladimir Ilyich, with its cargo of Soviet helicopters, was called home to Leningrad. Shortly thereafter, Moscow denied a Sandinista request for emergency funds. "They wanted money to put consumer goods in the stores, so they could portray the economic situation as improving and attract voter support," says Pavlov. "We didn't think it was a good investment...