Word: craft
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some merchants say they wouldn't have minded if Oktoberfest had been scrapped altogether. An attendant at Journeyman's, a John F. Kennedy St. craft store, said that a passerby had thrown a soda can at the store...
...which a smuggler loaded with $15 million worth of stolen cocaine was killed in a parachute jump. Beyond that, there were suggestions of a disturbing recklessness. The plane's owner, David Lee Williams of Atlanta, disregarded a mechanic's warning that the fuel was contaminated. He flew the craft to the West Wind Sport Parachute Center, where it turned into a coffin for himself and the chutists...
...shuttle missions were tightly orchestrated, with half the team working in mission control and the other half aboard the shuttle simulator. Those in the shuttle flew the craft, performed scientific experiments (one had to take a sample of his own blood and test it for glucose), and went outside to complete extra-vehicular tasks using the Five Degrees of Freedom Chairs and the MMU. The counselors agree that the adults were more serious and professional about their tasks than the kids...
...called Mentorship Grants of about $4300 would enable each of the selected graduate students to learn the teaching craft first-hand from veteran instructors, said Steven E. Ozment, associate dean of undergraduate education, who is supervising the plan...
...from France's underwater demolition training base in Corsica, who were supplied with explosives by the support teams. They were said to have attached two mines to the Rainbow Warrior, first a smaller charge to force any occupants off the ship, and then a second one to sink the craft. The two frogmen disappeared without a trace...