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...That situation is always fluid--it can change from week to week and time to time," Duehay said. "All I know is that if you have the votes you do it and if you don't, you wait...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Council Tables Ruling On Harvard Motor Inn | 11/1/1989 | See Source »

...certainties vanish. The earth liquefies. It becomes as wild as surf. The solid is abruptly fluid. Normally, earth is the refuge, the stability, the foundation of things. The earth should be alive only to grow vegetables and flowers. Now the earth itself becomes a beast, all teeth and gashes and sudden topplings. Reality has turned molten and violent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: When the Earth Cracks Open | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

...outburst, the frightened inmates run right out of their shoes into a dressing room -- and another bout of humiliation. As if on cue, an aide shows up with electric clippers and shaves the young men's heads. The inmates then strip naked, and an assistant sprays them with delousing fluid. All the while, Cash keeps up his string of personal insults...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shock Incarceration | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...Paul airport. One minute after the explosion, he radioed that his craft had developed "complete hydraulic failure." That meant the crew could no longer control the rudder, elevators, wing flaps and ailerons that steer the jet. Too massive to be manually manipulated, these control surfaces are normally powered by fluid pumped by pressure from the jet engines through a series of stainless-steel tubes that snake throughout the aircraft. Since each of the plane's three redundant hydraulic systems is powered by a separate engine, the loss of power from the No. 2 engine should have left two of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brace! Brace! Brace! | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

...soundness of the view that it is irrelevant for purposes of such determination that 62% of Time-Warner stock would have been held by former Warner shareholders." In fact, he added, "neither corporation could be said to be acquiring the other. Control of both remained in a large, fluid, changeable and changing market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One for The Books | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

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