Word: compartmentalization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In Moscow, the Soviet military newspaper Red Star reported yesterday that the submarine was on its way home when a fire broke out in a compartment.
Through the fogged window of the Moscow-Tambov express, the early-morning sky seemed so gray and thick that the horizon blended imperceptibly into fields of snow. Children on their way to school dawdled by a railway crossing, the flaps of their fur hats sticking out like ungainly wings. A...
Engineers at Seattle's Boeing Co., makers of the 747, said the explosive almost certainly had been placed in the aircraft's forward baggage hold, just in front of the section where the wings are attached to the fuselage. They estimated that about 10 lbs. of a plastic explosive had...
The two successfully completed the separation from Mir early Tuesday morning, then crawled into the cramped re-entry vehicle and jettisoned the compartment of the Soyuz craft that contained toilet facilities and living space. They had just settled in to await the firing of the computer-controlled rocket that was...
Wearing an Air Force flight jacket and nibbling on cheese and crackers, George Bush was sitting with his wife Barbara and campaign chairman James Baker when he invited TIME Correspondent David Beckwith to the forward compartment of Air Force Two last Friday for his first interview as the Republican presidential...