Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turned away from the approaching aircraft, a clear signal that the American pilots were not looking for a fight. To the surprise of the U.S. crews, the Libyan planes shifted abruptly ("jinked," in pilot jargon) to get back on a nose-to-nose lineup with the Americans. The distance between the two pairs of jets was closing at roughly 1,000 m.p.h...
...Raynolds added that the way may be clear for approval of the plan. "I am told that the language of the contract concerning the seven issues we've raised about public disclosure have been changed in a way that will probably be satisfactory to us," Raynolds said. "The indemnification issue is holding...
...muscles with increased vigor -- and the college-sports lockup has swelled. Brooklyn College, Illinois, Marist College, Minnesota, Texas A & M, Arizona State, Cleveland State, Cincinnati, Houston, West Texas State, Kansas and Oklahoma represent the year's catch in the NCAA's crusade, according to its charter, to "retain a clear line of demarcation between college athletics and professional sports...
...goal for the juniors and seniors at Watertown High in Watertown, Mass., is to mount a thimble-size metal earth on a coat hanger in the middle of a melon-size clear-plastic sphere that is supposed to be the universe. The students then use Magic Markers to trace onto the universe a computer-drawn map of a few hundred of the brightest stars in the night sky. They draw a line around the sphere to represent the ecliptic, or path of the sun through the constellations, and then they are ready for some gnarly astronomy...
Such transactions are illegal only if they can be proved to be clear-cut bribes that elicit favors in return. Thus prosecutors are looking closely at cases in which Recruit may have got something for its generosity. One such transaction is NTT's purchase in 1986 and '87 of two U.S.-made Cray Research supercomputers, which the utility in turn sold to Recruit. Investigators are looking into the possibility that NTT officials gave Recruit a special deal on the machines...