Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spacecraft will break up into approximately 500 pieces, with most weighing less than ten pounds, NASA officials said. However, the air lock shroud weighs 3900 pounds and the lead film safe weighs 5100 pounds. Both objects are likely to strike the earth at speeds greater than 260 miles per hour...
...snipers. One driver was informed over his CB radio that he was losing a right wheel. When he stepped out to have a look, he was shot and wounded. Because of that and other incidents, Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander declared an energy emergency, put state troopers on a twelve-hour day and ordered them to escort trucks, especially those carrying gasoline and diesel fuel. Troopers forced strikers blocking truck stops to move their rigs...
During his first 2½-hour talk with Park, Carter broached the delicate topic of human rights, an area in which South Korea has been severely criticized. At a state dinner hosted by the South Korean President, Carter praised the country's economic progress but added that "this achievement can be matched by similar progress through the realization of basic human aspirations in political and human rights." Under a series of draconian "emergency decrees" enacted in the early 1970s in the name of national security, the Korean government has sweeping powers of arrest, detention, search and seizure. Universities, radio...
Kosner, a graduate of New York's City College, became editor in 1975, after twelve years at the magazine. He learned of his dismissal only the afternoon before, during a stormy, 2½-hour meeting with Graham and Newsweek President Peter Derow. He was described as shocked, but associates said that he may have missed subtle signals of Graham's displeasure. Under Kosner's predecessor, Osborn Elliott, now dean of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, Newsweek was briefly known on Madison Avenue as a "hot book" because of improved editorial vitality and attendant advertising...
...Source, the owner of a home computer pays a $100 hookup fee, plus a service charge when his terminal is in use: $2.75 per off-peak hour (6 p.m. to 7 a.m.) or $15 per business hour. Once connected, the consumer can call up programs by placing a toll-free call to a computer in Silver Spring, Md., and asking The Source questions-in English. Available since June 5, The Source's home and business services are just a phone call and a terminal screen away for 500 new subscribers...