Word: endedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"Failure," said Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, 42, last week, "is part of any mission of this magnitude." Gandhi was comforting India's space scientists after the country's newest rocket ended its maiden flight in a watery crash, a fate that also befell an American Atlas-Centaur rocket later...
None of the celebrities, who filed jointly with their wives, were accused of any wrongdoing. But they may still have to pay huge sums in back taxes, penalties and interest. Sidney Poitier ended up with questionable deductions of $500,757, Michael Landon with $1 million, and his former Bonanza co...
Atkins began playing Pied Piper to the rich in 1978 with a scheme that promised $4 in paper losses from securities trading for every $1 invested. He was only 24 when he started and 29 when the operation ended in 1983 amid lawsuits from angry investors who accused Atkins of...
Low-level security breaches are notoriously difficult to detect and control, as the Navy learned from the Walker spy case, when a yeoman aboard the aircraft carrier Nimitz also stole classified materials from burn bags. Indeed, it is by no means certain that the Moscow operation ended with the departure...
Why the change in policy toward the rebels? Aquino had reluctantly concluded that her conciliatory approach had run out of steam. Since a 60-day cease-fire ended in early February, military officials said 170 N.P.A. rebels, 115 soldiers and police and 31 civilians had been killed. Pressure from her...