Word: dust
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...technology professor and former director of future projects at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center: "American pre-eminence in space simply no longer exists." Warns James Oberg, an expert on the Soviet space program: "If the Soviets can aggressively exploit this operational advantage, they can make us eat space dust for a long time to come...
California's Silicon Valley, home of many of the nation's newest high-tech companies, boasts a far cleaner image, but its workers face perils as well. In semiconductor plants, where a single speck of dust can destroy a computer chip, employees must don gloves, caps, gowns and shoe covers. But these chipmaking facilities, known as "clean labs," seem misnamed when workers relate the litany of health problems they encounter by being exposed to the acids, gases and solvents used in chip manufacture. California's division of labor statistics and research has found a high incidence of disabling illnesses among...
...thousands of new Harvard employees start searching through dust-ridden file cabinets for birth certificates and passports to prove their citizenship, the form, known as the I-9, seems destined to become as renowned, and as unpopular...
South Africa, 1958. Red dust, low green hills. A bride and groom make their way through a crowd of swaying villagers who clap and chant a ritual wedding song. Tribesmen draped in striped blankets beat the rhythm on painted drums. After the marriage feast, the couple walk in the countryside. She gathers the train of her bridal dress with one hand; the other is intertwined in his. "If only we didn't have to go back," he says. She looks up, all fresh anticipation. "I wonder what our life will be like?" she asks. Then: "I know one thing. Life...
They are probably the most extensive and carefully documented files on Nazi war crimes in existence. Yet for decades the 40,000 dossiers, compiled by the 17-country War Crimes Commission at the end of World War II, have been gathering dust on the eighth floor of a United Nations office building in New York City. Next week Secretary-General Perez de Cuellar will decide whether researchers and historians will be given access to the confidential records, which were "discovered" by Israeli officials last year. The documents sparked the controversy over the alleged participation in Nazi war crimes of Kurt...