Word: coasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During the two-hour informal discussion, Gonzales and Rodriguez addressed practical issues about what Chicano-American students have to deal with on the East Coast, removed from much of the Mexican-American community...
With the completion of the Horn Regatta, the Crimson is looking to continue its string of quality showings at the Atlantic Coast Championships next weekend, which will be held at Old Dominion in Virginia...
...involvement in the Middle East, as both a journalist and an academic, coincided with the nastiest period of the cold war in that part of the world--when the KGB, for example, was making weapons drops off the coast of Aden for radical Palestinian guerrillas. During this period, he developed close working relationships with some of the U.S.'s least favorite rulers, most notoriously with Iraq's Saddam Hussein and Libya's Muammar Gaddafi. According to widespread but unconfirmed reports, he worked for the KGB at this time. Primakov never comments on the allegations, though the fact that...
...News folks got in a snit when they heard about the Stone show--their aviation-industry sources were getting calls from Stone's people--and news chief David Westin expressed concern to colleagues in ABC's entertainment division. Last week East Coast newsies said Westin assured them that the Flight 800 portion of Declassified has been axed. But trust no one: Stone says 800 will be part of his show. The public ABC line is that the program will air with warnings that the news division didn't produce it (a disclaimer that could boost ratings dramatically...
...seat entertainment center may have been a deadly luxury. Last week Swissair announced it was shutting down the system on its 18 jumbo jets after Canadian investigators dredged up evidence of suspicious heat damage near the unit on the Geneva-bound MD-11 that crashed off the Nova Scotia coast Sept. 2, killing all 229 people aboard. The airline said the step was precautionary and no cause for the crash has been determined. Canada's Transportation Safety Board agreed with the airline's position, yet the findings point a finger of suspicion at the electrical wiring on the sophisticated video...