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...most popular model, he said, is the 20-inch box fan--the largest the store sells...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Summer at Harvard, and the Heat is On | 7/28/1989 | See Source »

SIOUX CITY, Iowa--Rescuers and survivors spoke of miracles, and investigators went "inch by inch" through a cornfield yesterday looking for an explanation of the fiery crash of United Flight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Investigators Seek Clues in DC-10 Crash | 7/21/1989 | See Source »

...search of the crash site, roughly the length of three football fields, "will be an inch-by-inch thing," Halterman said from the NTSB's makeshift command center in the Sioux City Convention Center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Investigators Seek Clues in DC-10 Crash | 7/21/1989 | See Source »

...around the country to transfer to Paramount the licenses and franchise rights for cable- TV units operated by Time's 82%-owned American Television and Communications. Getting approval for such transfers "would be difficult even without a hostile bid," says Ross, "but now we'll be challenging them every inch of the way." As the three-way takeover battle wears on, it is likely to be fought in just that contentious manner -- in the courts, the stock market and the corporate trenches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Return To Sender | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

...best news for the plants is that much of the park's soil seems to have been merely singed. The charred area in some places is only a fraction of an inch deep, leaving root systems intact. Compared with Mount St. Helens, where the 1980 eruption left the side of the mountain without soil, Yellowstone was fortunate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Springtime in The Rockies | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

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