Word: closers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...closer inspection, it clearly wasn't the real McCoy...
...Everyone stood up to the cold very well, and that was the difference," said Bermingham. "Our victory over Northeastern indoors was much closer...
Although the major decisions about last week's events took place in Washington, State Department Correspondent Johanna McGeary found herself closer to the action than she had anticipated. Flying over the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Greece with Secretary of State George Shultz, McGeary was startled to see the red lights of fighter jets nosing up on either wing of Shultz's plane. Officials aboard quickly reassured reporters that the planes were friendly F-4 Phantoms assigned to protect one of the Reagan Administration's chief advocates of forceful action against terrorism...
Shortly before Essex revealed his discovery, a group of French and Portuguese researchers announced a related finding. At a conference in Lisbon, Dr. Luc Montagnier of Paris' Pasteur Institute disclosed that his team too had found a missing-link virus, apparently closer to the simian virus than it is to the human AIDS strain. As in Essex's study, the new virus was found in the blood of West Africans -- in this case, two men from Guinea-Bissau, which borders Senegal. Both men, however, were suffering from the symptoms of AIDS. "It seems to be the same disease; there...
...part of a policy for dealing with Nicaragua. Smacking Gaddafi may be cathartic and quick. But if the U.S. is truly going to face its responsibilities as a superpower, it will have to find a way to grapple with threats that are far more difficult and dirty, especially those closer to home...