Word: ch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they boarded their Chinook. But they had also gassed themselves. As Journalist David Butler writes in his new book The Fall of Saigon, "They forgot that a settling helicopter sucks up air. So the last official Americans out of Viet Nam, the eleven Marines and the crew of the CH-46, including the pilot--all flew blind out of Saigon...
...retired autoworker becomes the third recipient of the Jarvik-7 ONCE AGAIN THE SOUNDS OF CLASSICAL MUSIC FILLED THE OPERATING ROOM AT HUMANA HOSPITAL AUDUBON IN LOUISVILLE. AND ONCE AGAIN, AS THE OPERATION DREW TO A CLOSE, A STRANGE, PERCUSSIVE ACCOMPANIMENT AROSE FROM THE PATIENT'S CHEST: ch, ch, ch. FOR DR. WILLIAM DEVRIES, THE ONLY SURGEON IN THE WORLD AUTHORIZED TO IMPLANT THE ARTIFICIAL HEART, THESE WERE THE SOUNDS OF SUCCESS, AS REASSURING TO HIM AS A NEWBORN'S FIRST SQUEAL IS TO THE OBSTETRICIAN...
...large statue of a dragon between Widener's Library and Boylston Hall was carved during the reign of the emperor Chia Ch'ing, who ruled China from 1796-1821. It was donated in 1936 by the Harvard Alumni of China, York says...
Nonetheless, Duarte seems to be winning the confidence of the business community. Once considered objectionably socialist on economic issues, the President has moved closer to the center. Planning Minister Fidel Chávez Mena has promised to consult business and labor in drawing up a recovery plan. In the atmosphere of stability produced by Duarte's election, entrepreneurs are opening new businesses again. Many businessmen still distrust Duarte, but others are willing to give him a chance. "The President today has the respect he didn't have before," says Eduardo Menéndez, the head of a plastic...
...meeting showed how far the concept of summitry has come-or gone-in a decade. The first economic summit took place in November 1975, when French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing came up with the idea of gathering fellow leaders literally around a fireside in the secluded French château of Rambouillet. The only press suite was in the Hotel George V in Paris, about 25 miles away. Something tangible was accomplished: an agreement to change the articles of the International Monetary Fund to accommodate a new economic world of floating exchange rates. Since then, there has been...