Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...almost daily charges and revelations about career-ending sexual misconduct. No sooner had the Air Force completed its awkward ejection of Lieut. Flinn than allegations of wrongdoing by officials high and low began landing in the Pentagon's backyard. Army Major General John Longhouser, commanding general of Aberdeen Proving Ground, decided last week to retire after a telephone tipster told Army investigators of an affair Longhouser had had five years ago. Army Brigadier General Stephen Xenakis was relieved of the command of all Army medical operations in the Southeast region two weeks ago because of an apparent "improper relationship" with...
...Service meteorologist said the storm was "too large to outrun and too strong to have survived, unless you got away from the path." In its wake, half a mile wide and seven miles long, the twister left at least 27 people dead, nothing but bald concrete slabs in the ground where homes once stood, and a small town with big gaps among its chains of families and friends...
...Joan, their twin sons John and Paul and daughter Audrey, rushed to their home next to Clawson's plant the moment the siren sounded--and apparently the twister chose to sweep in that direction. No one knows if the Igos sought shelter or tried to lie low to the ground or cover themselves with pillows, blankets or mattresses. Their home was leveled to its concrete foundation, and all that remained was the stripped and battered hulk of one of Larry's collection of '57 Chevys. In the frantic search for survivors, someone tacked a note to the front door...
...powerless, they were content, it seemed, to party on in a Wayne's Netherworld, one with more antiheroes--Kurt Cobain, Dennis Rodman, the Menendez brothers--than role models. The label that stuck was from Douglas Coupland's 1991 novel, Generation X, a tale of languid youths musing over "mental ground zero--the location where one visualizes oneself during the dropping of the atomic bomb: frequently a shopping mall...
Rowe has had a lot of practice breaking ground. "I spent my childhood on a Wisconsin farm with Depression-era parents who taught me to fear disaster," he recalls. He studied law at the University of Wisconsin and in the early 1980s helped engineer Conrail's financial turnaround. In the mid-1980s, as president of Central Maine Power, he steered the divestiture of the controversial Seabrook nuclear plant. Rowe compares himself to the pilot of Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi, "navigating shifting waters" where "the shore is never quite the same...