Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some Pentagon officials theorize that the bomb may have been dropped by an attacker that was out of control. Three Navy pilots reported seeing one aircraft turn into a "fireball" and disappear into the ocean about ten miles offshore. The missing crewmen, who were presumed dead after a search yielded no signs of life, were Captain Fernando L. Ribas-Dominicci, 33, of Puerto Rico and Captain Paul F. Lorence, 31, of San Francisco...
...privately most of these governments, as well as those of Nicaragua's immediate neighbors, support the U.S. policy. They cannot say so publicly, he asserts, for fear of provoking the Sandinistas. In their hearts, says another Western diplomat in the region, most Central American leaders "wish the Sandinistas would disappear...
...goal by Thom Germano in the game's final minute iced the game for the Pioneers, who had taken two previous two-goal leads, only to see them both disappear in the midst of Harvard rallies...
...anger. When the crisis doesn't go away quickly, the panic sets in." Agrees Donald Deaton, a senior vice president at Hill & Knowlton, a New York-based public relations firm with an expertise in crisis management: "You can't sit on your hands waiting for the problem to disappear. You have to take charge...
Kelley says that the American farming system has been "touted as an example to the world as the best of democracy and the free market system." To allow the individual farmer to disappear would send a message to the rest of the world, Kelley says, and could influence farm policy in China, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Bloc countries...