Word: cold
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Seven years ago the fall of the USSR and the subsequent opening of Soviet archives brought hard facts to the formerly-speculative field of Cold War studies...
Last night a handful of Cold War experts gathered at the ARCO Forum of the Institute of Politics (IOP) to discuss some of the revelations produced by this new data...
...point of conflict among panelists was identifying the most perilous point of the Cold...
...engine failed. The 460-ton rocket fell back to Earth, showering debris across southern Siberia and driving Globalstar's stock down 40% overnight. The $190 million payload was covered by insurance, but the disaster delayed the system's debut even further. It was a big blow. Like the first cold-beer vendor on a hot beach, Iridium is more likely than ever to win those first and most eager customers--and the ones probably willing to pay top dollar for the new service. The company is betting that its charter customers will then balk at ditching their expensive handset...
...relationship between Ethan Learner, a pacifist English professor; his wife Grace, a trusting garden designer; and Dwight Arno, a temperamental probate lawyer, converges on a common point of pain: the hit-and-run death of 10-year-old Josh Learner, Ethan and Grace's music-prodigy son, at the cold steel hands of Dwight's Ford Taurus. The death is an accident, all blood and vectors, but the dark, emotional dance that follows is shown to be as inevitable as fate...