Word: highes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been nearly 25 years since John McPhee struck out for areas relatively unknown, to prove by deft reportage that anything can be interesting if it is presented well. He has written arrestingly about subjects as mundane as oranges and as momentous as high-energy physics and the geologic forces that shape our planet. The three pieces that constitute his 20th book, Atchafalaya, Cooling the Lava and Los Angeles Against the Mountains, deal with the power of determined people to tame water, fire and earth...
...near the conclusion of the hearings. Last week's uncomfortable spotlight may have supplied the IRS with some much needed motivation. Said Edward Habecker, a former IRS official, in testimony at the hearings: "What is lacking today within the IRS is not the tools, but the desire to maintain high ethical standards...
...loss of all three of the plane's redundant hydraulic systems at the same moment, rendering it almost impossible to control. FAA investigators are combing a 16-sq.-mi. area of Iowa cornfields for pieces of a fan disk of the plane's No. 2 engine, which was mounted high on the DC-10's tail. They hope that examining the fan disk will help them determine what caused an explosion that sent shards of metal through the plane's tail section, severing all three hydraulic lines...
...unlike its near-twin next-door neighbor, Uranus, Neptune appears to have distinct weather patterns. The probe's cameras have glimpsed a streak of white that may be an atmospheric jet stream, longitudinal bands that could mark prevailing winds, and a dark blotch, perhaps similar to Jupiter's ancient high-pressure system known as the Great Red Spot. Neptune, Jupiter and Saturn all generate more heat than they receive from the sun, while Uranus does not; the excess heat may be the source of the turbulence...
Corboy's lawsuit was the first volley in what promises to be a high-stakes legal battle over the Iowa crash. Some attorneys have even taken to calling the tragedy "Sue City" because of the huge number of lawsuits that are expected to follow. While the 185 survivors and the next of kin of the 111 who were killed are the ultimate beneficiaries, the struggle will take place between a small cadre of plaintiffs' lawyers and their counterparts, who represent airlines, aviation manufacturers and their insurance companies. That kind of tug-of-war has grown increasingly fierce over the past...