Word: firma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...boarded the Sarah and arrested Chief Engineer Alan Weiner and Disk Jockey Ivan Rothstein. The two were released pending a hearing on charges of conspiring to impede the FCC. In the meantime, station WNYG-AM on Long Island is giving the rock-'n'-roll pirates some time on terra firma and allowing them a test 16-hour broadcast this week...
Newark never looked so good as it did when I stepped off the plane onto good old terra firma. There was not time to offer a sacrifice to whatever God had delivered me, so I hurried to the Boston gate. Luck was mine again, and an hour later, I was at Logan Airport waiting for my luggage...
...preferred to retool The Twilight Zone rather than take a chance on Spielberg's anthology of original stories, is convinced that Amazing Stories is actually his network's secret weapon. Shephard predicts "a high initial tune-in sample" of the NBC show, followed by a return to tele firma. And if that does not happen, all CBS has to do is contrive to let a Sunday-afternoon N.F.L. broadcast run overtime, thus pushing 60 Minutes back by ten or 15 minutes, and 60 Minutes loyalists will miss the first half of an Amazing story. That is precisely the tactic...
Physicist Joseph P. Allen, one of five crew members aboard the space shuttle Discovery, made his maiden voyage into space two years ago. An astronaut since 1967, he took the fifth flight of the shuttle Columbia. Back on terra firma, Allen collaborated with Writer Russell Martin on a book, Entering Space, published this month (Stewart, Tabori & Chang; $24.95). Illustrated with scores of photographs, a few of which appear here, Entering Space is a knowing and scrupulously detailed account of the most ambitious American adventures aloft. It gives a sense of the prosaic minutiae and the dumb-struck wonder of traveling...
...name denims fetches $400 on the black market in Siberia; tapes of Michael Jackson and the Police go for $54 in Moscow. Teen-agers are so fond of Adidas sneakers that a new Russian adjective has been coined: adidasovsky, meaning "terrific." A trendy girl is described as firmennaya, from firma, meaning an item with a Western brand name...