Word: expel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years to make his first flight, he has been working closely with the MMU's designers to perfect the complex machine, which looks like a seatless chair and can be steered by controls in its armrests. Each of these controls activates one or more of 24 jets that expel puffs of nitrogen gas. When McCandless fired jets on one side of the MMU, they provided a textbook example of Newton's third law ("For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction"): the astronaut was propelled the other...
Rather than close the fraternity or expel the students involved as many observers expected, the school reached a secret agreement with the fraternity. Alpha Tao Omega was allowed to remain open, and the members were forced to perform community service, including the reading and discussion of women's rights literature...
...Sandinistas have announced that 1,000 Cuban advisers have left Nicaragua and that others will leave if El Salvador and Honduras expel their U.S. advisers. The government has also let it be known that leftist Salvadoran rebels are no longer welcome on Nicaraguan soil, forcing them to find another haven. In addition, the Sandinistas have hinted that elections will be held in 1985, and have made overtures to leaders of the Roman Catholic Church and the country's embattled business community to sit down and discuss their differences...
Meanwhile, Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser Arafat is still trying desperately to contain the revolt that broke out two months ago within Fatah, the P.L.O.'s dominant group. His charge that Syrian President Hafez Assad fanned the rebellion prompted Syria to expel Arafat last month. Although thousands of his fighters remain in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, Arafat has had to move his base of operations to Tunisia while trying to win support from Arab leaders and the Soviet Union. The P.L.O. leader could take little comfort in the news from Moscow last week. According to a TASS report...
...with 80 MiG fighter planes. In a press conference arranged by the State Department, Bolanos also contended that the Nicaraguan government had concocted the story of an American-sponsored plot to poison Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto, which was used earlier this month as a pretext to expel three U.S. diplomats...