Word: coasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even the avenue from graduation day to a full-fledged career, the directions and milestones are clearly marked. Forty-five miles north of home is the border patrol checkpoint, a lone reminder of the often tormented dividing line farther south. Slightly to the north, Interstate-5 turns from the coast inland, giving the driver a view of Disneyland's tallest attractions rather than the ocean's buoys. Along the way lie the ubiquitous fast-food restaurants, rest stops and mini-malls: reminders of a location in consumer America, more specifically southern California. The roads are well-paved and well-labeled...
...ORLEANS: As Hurricane Danny slowly makes its way towards coastal Mississippi and Alabama, inhabitants along the coast are preparing for a bumpy ride. Danny, which was upgraded today from a tropical storm to a hurricane, has already pounded Louisiana's Grand Isle with winds up to 75 mph and storm tides as high as six feet. Heavy wind damage was reported on the island, but so far, no one has been injured, local authorities said. The island's 2,000 residents have been ordered to evacuate. The storm is currently located about 45 miles southeast of New Orleans...
DIED. WILLIAM TURNBULL JR., 62, iconoclastic architect whose abstract structures complemented their rugged West Coast environments; of undisclosed causes; in Sausalito, Calif. Turnbull's noted Sea Ranch condominium, with its barnlike simplicity, was designed for the rigors of the California coast...
...work. After the spacecraft gets its bearings, they'll send it a signal causing it to open up, revealing the papoose-like Sojourner rover inside. A camera on the lander will snap a picture of both the car and the landscape, and by 6 p.m. on the West Coast, NASA hopes to release the image both to the press and on the Web mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov/) After that, it will at last be time for Brian Cooper to take the wheel...
...Clinton's pygmy proposals are representative of more than what they seem at first glance. In 1960, John F. Kennedy '40 and Richard M. Nixon spent much of the fall arguing about the fate of Quemoy and Matsu, two small islands off the coast of China. Yet for all the hand-wringing that year and thenceforth about spending so much of the election on such minute specks of land, the argument was really about how the candidates would deal with the Communist menace--a debate definitely worth having. When George Bush spent the fall of 1988 talking about the Pledge...