Word: eves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...floor of the subway car. When he saw Cabey with no blood on him, he decided to shoot again. These details of the Dec. 22 incident were made public last week in a report written by police in Concord, N.H., where Goetz surrendered last New Year's Eve after nine days...
Fish chronicles the return of the shy, self-effacing Dent to his home planet after a successful demolition-eve escape. He has spent the intervening eight years hitching rides on passing spacecraft, snacking at duty-free shops on distant planets and encountering such diverse creatures as a lost tribe of ballpoint pens mislaid by former owners, and a race of marketing executives who, despite 573 committee meetings, have still not discovered the wheel ("All right, Mr. Wiseguy . . . you tell us what color it should be"). To Dent's surprise, earth has somehow escaped destruction, but all the dol phins have...
...toward spiking that criticism. At a ceremony in Vienna, the U.S.S.R. signed an agreement that for the first time allows the U.N.-sponsored International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to inspect carefully selected parts of Moscow's civilian nuclear industry. Said Soviet Diplomat Vladimir Petrovsky at the signing: "On the eve of U.S.-Soviet talks in Geneva, we feel it is necessary to create a favorable atmosphere...
...days it had been rumored that Soviet Leader Konstantin Chernenko, 73, would appear last Friday to deliver an address to his Moscow constituents. The occasion was the eve of national elections for members of the Supreme Soviets, the nominal legislative bodies of the 15 Soviet republics. Instead, the assembled delegates and a national television audience were told by Moscow Party Boss Viktor Grishin, 70, that Chernenko would not attend the meeting "on the recommendation of his doctors." It was the first formal acknowledgment to the Soviet people that Chernenko has health problems...
...selection came on the eve of Carrabino's entry into the Harvard basketball record books as the team's all-time leading scorer (see story, page...