Word: closed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appreciation in the U.S. yet for what the tremendous drop in the standard of living of the Mexican people really means, what the drop in government spending on education, on health, on infrastructure really means for the country and the people. I do not think the U.S. understands how close Mexico is to the brink...
...generous. When relatives of co-workers are sick, she sends cards and fruit baskets; her thank-you notes are known for their eloquence. Her own life-style, meanwhile, is far from extravagant. In the New York City apartment she occupied while single, "she preferred no decor," says a close friend. "Basically, what she had was an awful little table in the living room with a couple of small couches and some dying plants." Admits Sawyer: "I'm hopeless. I'd just as soon send out for pizza and sit on pillows in front of the fire...
...Lines DC- 10 carrying 199 people plowed into an olive grove near Tripoli, Libya. As was the case in Sioux City, a majority of those aboard the KAL flight survived, but as many as 80 were killed. The same day in Los Angeles a United DC-10 had another close call: though the pilot reported a hydraulic leak, he managed to bring in his plane without incident. One day later in Toronto, a Canadian International Airlines DC-10 en route from Rio de Janeiro landed safely after losing one of its ten landing wheels...
...Graduate students love to do the teaching. They get to do for the students whatever was or wasn't done for them," says Betty Lou Marple, the program's director. "They are still close enough to their own experience as students...
...those occasions when the antagonists do fight at close range, the results can be fearsome. In a month-long clash ending last May, soldiers battled intensely on a mountain and ridges near the Chumic Glacier. Both sides dispatched men in a furious race to an icy 21,300-ft.-high peak that commanded the area. "The secret in this terrain," says an Indian officer, "is to be the first on top." Seeing that the Indians would in fact get there first, the Pakistanis took a gamble: in howling winds they tied two soldiers to the runners of a helicopter...