Word: diversity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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On one Games show, a stunt driver named Spunky piloted a car off a 45-ft.-high ramp into a lake. The camera focused on the clenched face of his wife as rescue divers made their way to the sunken auto. Would Spunky survive his dive? (Answer: yes.) In another...
James Moriarty, a University of San Diego marine archaeologist, identifies it as a so-called messenger stone, probably of ancient Chinese origin. Such a stone could be sent sliding down an anchor chain, via the hole, to strip away accumulations of seaweed. Another stony relic, discov ered five years ago...
The bus sank in 20 ft. of water on top of the cars. Two tugboats were able to tow the freighter away from the bridge, but divers were hampered by squalls and by fears that a 40-ft. slab of roadway hanging precariously from the abutment might tumble in too...
The Preppie* label derives, of course, from the clothes in which young aspirants to the gentry are expected to show up at the better preparatory schools on either side of the Atlantic. The term, however, does little justice to the actual look, which, with imagination and some bullion, does anything...
The three divers, Bud, Shelton, a physician's assistant at Duke, William Bell, a fourth-year medical student, and Stephen Porter, a commercial diver from Houston received hundreds of letters and telegrams congratulating them on their achievement.