Word: catapults
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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August 9, Kansas City. The Sox continue to pistol whip the American League opposition and catapult to second place in the East. Boggs has been missing for 10 days. He was last seen in The Can's hotel room photographing him with a blow-up Cap'n Crunch...
...combined effect can be gut wrenching. In the catapult launch of a Honeywell T-45 Goshawk trainer from the deck of an aircraft carrier, for example, the body is crushed against the back of the seat and the wind roars in the ears. "You forget the whole thing's bolted to the concrete floor," says David Figgins, a program manager at Honeywell. "I've seen top guns climb out wringing wet. I've seen seasoned pilots throw...
...meantime, Kalb says he "wouldn't besurprised" if, after this summer's conventions,PBS were to run a four-week series of interviewswith each of the presidential andvice-presidential nominees. Whether or not Americaviews this media expert as a bona fide pundit,that may be enough to catapult him back into theranks of Who's Who. And as any amateurpolitician can tell you, a public televisionaudience isn't NBC, but it's certainly better thana half-filled lecture hall
...developed, often under international pressure, by local and foreign South African business organizations. Even before the lifting of residence and property restrictions, blacks were beginning to enjoy better wages, job opportunities and employment benefits. Expanded credit to township homeowners and developers, totaling some $30 million a month, has helped catapult large numbers of blacks from low-income to middle-income and even luxury housing. A Cape Town conference attended by government officials and political leaders two weeks ago held out the promise of even greater progress, as successive speakers called for economic reforms aimed at giving blacks a bigger share...
...eighth Jolley book, including six other novels and a collection of stories, to be released in the U.S. in the past three years. Prior to 1984, she was one of Australia's best-kept literary secrets. Now her international reputation has edged past the cultish toward the catapult of runaway acclaim...