Word: flare
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plan is, if the two infiltrators are about to be captured at sea or on the beach, they will fire a parachute flare to signal their comrades on La Rebaude. There is no flare. The lights of a French patrol boat appear to the north, at the 12-mile limit. It motors to within 300 yds. of La Rebaude, showing its presence. Then it falls away...
...jockeying over reform has caused tempers to flare. Some Senators saw evidence of overly strenuous industry lobbying last month, when Senator Larry Pressler of South Dakota, chairman of the committee that drafted the Senate's version of the bill, read into the record a letter from a Time Warner senior vice president, Timothy Boggs. The letter involved a contentious pricing provision favored by small cable companies and opposed by entertainment providers Time Warner and Viacom. It indicated that Time Warner's HBO unit had agreed to provide programs to a group of small cable-TV companies, including one in Pressler...
...that this was West's second time around as fame's darling. She was, in fact, the last surviving member -- ''the Kid," they called her then -- of a group of formidably gifted black writers of the late '20s and early '30s, the period of the Harlem Renaissance. This flare of talent included poets Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes and novelists Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston. While still in her teens, fresh out of Girls' Latin School in Boston, West tied for second with Hurston in a short-story contest. After that, Hurston and the older black writers took...
...Saturday -- with clear lungs and a normal heart and pulse, with good blood pressure and cholesterol kept in a normal range by medication. But is that enough? "Dole and his campaign are trying to be aggressive and proactive about a problem that doesn't really exist now but might flare up on them later," saysTIME's Michael Duffy. "By laying the predicate of candor and disclosure now, they not only take the issue off the table, they force other candidates to play at their level of openness. We'll see a lot of hematology charts flying over faxes...
...they approached the area where O'Grady's signal beacon had been traced. The pilots saw bright yellow smoke coming from trees near a rocky pasture; O'Grady had set off a flare. The first Super Stallion, commanded by Major William Tarbutton, touched down, trying to avoid crude pine fence posts with barbed wire strung between them. Some 20 Marines scrambled out to set up a security perimeter...