Word: inched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...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...
...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...
THAT'S the secret, really. Don't write out "TIME!!!" in inch-high scrawl--it only brings out the sadist in us. Don't (Cliffies) write offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks--we can (officially) read anything, and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page--single-blue-book finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good five extra points if you can hack...
...billion, the 100-inch telescope is designed to detect objects up to 30 times fainter than can now be seen...