Word: catches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rivalries and dispatched a specially equipped and trained Army unit to join the gulf fleet. Three weeks ago he visited Rear Admiral Harold Bernsen, commander of the Middle East Force on the command ship U.S.S. La Salle off Bahrain. The two officers worked on the plans to track and catch Iranian vessels capable of laying mines. Crowe gave Bernsen freedom to move swiftly once the trap was sprung. "The critical decision was his," Crowe told TIME last week. "I didn't want a long bureaucratic chain of command for this operation...
...space program have posed troubling questions for Washington that cannot be ignored. Can the U.S. forge a consistent, long-range policy for space? What kind of resources will it take for America to recapture its position as the leading space power? Considering the Soviet lead, is it possible to catch up? It is up to the Reagan Administration, which is currently re-evaluating the future of the crippled U.S. space program, to supply the answers...
...major criticism of the Crimson this year has been their inability to play catch-up. In their last two games--losses to Northeastern and Providence--Harvard gave up early goals and could never recover. In yesterday's game, however, all of Harvard's goals came when it was behind in the contest...
Castaway too derives its energy from a reversal. Turns out that Lucy is the one with a taste for solitude and the practicality that survival requires. Gerald is there to catch naps, sun and only the occasional fish. Even a sexual strike by Lucy cannot force him to build a decent hut or a productive garden. There is perhaps a parable here, which Roeg does not force: that woman, however liberated, will build a nest, and that man will wander, if only in his mind, no matter how circumscribed...
...Catch them later when they wake...