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...momentum switched to the home team in the final 20 minutes Bulldog Bill Watson deflected a shot off blueliner Code's skates and into the twines for the go-ahead goal at 9:14 and Fish back added an insurance tally seven minutes later. Scott Fusco made it 3-2 with 10 seconds to go with his second goal of the game...
...late 1970s, Opel soon started shaking things up. The company began opening retail stores, not only to sell such staples as electric typewriters, but also to position it for a move into the fast-expanding personal computer field. In 1980 top management secretly gave the go-ahead to an engineering team, cloistered at a plant in Boca Raton, Fla., to begin designing a small computer (the project was code-named Acorn). Twelve months later, the PC was rolling off the production line. Breaking with tradition, IBM had used many non-IBM components: the TV monitor came from Taiwan, the printer...
...January 1981 that relations between the two countries seriously deteriorated. The Administration began charging that the Sandinistas, backed by Cuba and the Soviet Union, were funneling arms to leftist guerrillas in El Salvador, often shipping the weapons across the southern heel of Honduras. In December 1981, Reagan gave the go-ahead for a series of covert operations to snip the supply line and intimidate the Sandinistas. Included were financial aid for opposition groups within Nicaragua and military assistance to the various contras (counterrevolutionaries) who conduct raids into Nicaragua from bases in Honduras. For a "covert" operation, the U.S. effort...
...after months of high-pressure lobbying of the White House by both the company and Illinois Senator Charles Percy, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the fast-growing telecommunications firm (1981 sales: $140 million) has received an official go-ahead to honor its contractual commitments in spite of pipeline sanctions. Andrew's friends and lawyers had succeeded in convincing the U.S. Department of Commerce that the company's microwave antennas were not really intended to be used directly on the pipeline project, but were simply for independent use that might indirectly be of some benefit...
Anderson said he tried to tell Epps of the change in plans but could not reach him. Instead, the Alliance apparently got the go-ahead from Peter J. Gomes, minister at Mem Church. But that information never reached Epps or his associates...