Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mission was canceled when three of the eight helicopters heading toward Desert One broke down while flying through a blinding sandstorm. An electrical power supply on one craft overheated and failed, knocking out the gyrocompass, the horizon indicator and the cockpit lights. The crew flew back to the Nimitz, making a dangerous landing, with fuel tanks nearly empty...
...each. The next speaker, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, went far beyond those issues to deliver a sweeping global critique. He charged the Administration with lacking a world view that would produce a consistent policy and offered one of his own in a dour tour d'horizon of impressive scope...
...starting time, the sun had set and the sky painted a navy blue backdrop, with traces of pink scraping the horizon...
Staff Writer Stephen Smith, who wrote the main narrative, became TIME'S Press writer in November 1978. An interest in print journalism came instinctively to Smith, a former senior editor at Horizon magazine and reporter for the Boston Globe, the Philadelphia Inquirer and other newspapers. But today he is a "network news junkie" as well; he watches an hour of TV news each morning and another hour at night, and sets his alarm clock each week to catch his favorite show, CBS's Sunday Morning, "perhaps the most imaginative and creative news experiment going on in journalism." Smith...
...economy that stubbornly refuses to cool off, consumers who will not stop spending, prices that keep on rising and, looming on the horizon, the biggest new inflationary jolt of defense spending since the Viet...