Word: closer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...described as an upside-down wedding cake, is a restricted area; planes must receive permission from an air controller to enter it. The unusually complex Los Angeles TCA has a uniform ceiling of 7,000 ft., but its twelve sectors have varying floors that grow lower as planes get closer to LAX. The Torrance airport lies under this TCA, at a point where the floor...
...dealers have paid up and rolled out with their vans. The rug merchants, who pool their buying to keep the price down, have loaded their camels and saddled up. Minor dealers hover for scraps. "The closer you get to the sale, the worse the piece you want looks," says one. "You have to ignore your doubts." He looks doubtful, but he spends $250 on a Tlingit basket that he can almost certainly resell for $400. Withington knocks himself out to move a large wooden cheese box for an outrageous $300, and with a final handclap -- one clever scamp applauding himself...
...west, until late the next afternoon. A government employee who had been motorcycling to Nios from Wum first discovered the disaster. When he came upon a dead antelope, he thought he had had a stroke of luck, and happily strapped the animal to his bike. But when he got closer to Nios, the impact of what had happened struck him as he saw more and more bodies of people and animals. Fighting back dizziness, he returned to Wum. Late that day, his ghastly report finally reached Yaounde...
...little and scattered is what many educators feel Harvard's core provides. The University of Massachusetts' Duffey describes its effect on learning as modest. Harvard, he says, does not "seem any closer to making judgments about the qualities of an educated mind." Others note that with the core, a student may graduate from Harvard without having read a word of Shakespeare, the Bible or the U.S. Constitution...
...violence in Soweto left blacks more embittered than ever. Black leaders maintained that the number of deaths was closer to 30 than the 20 the government claimed and called for the resignation of the township council. Said the Rev. Frank Chikane, a Sowetan civic leader: "We are appalled by this cold-blooded massacre of our people. This was one of the darkest days in our history." The South African Council of Churches criticized the Soweto councilors for their eviction policy, pointing out that the rent issue had become a "political time bomb" that could "explode in townships throughout South Africa...