Word: instants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...woman sitting in a car parked in front of the store. Anthony Padilla, a photographer for the Brownsville Herald, witnessed the scene from across the street. "The entire storefront, the windows just exploded out," he said. "People just covered their heads, kind of ducked down, and in the next instant the whole thing came down. People I had been looking at were covered with rubble...
...A320 has been an instant best seller. Though the Federal Aviation Administration has yet to approve the use of the jets for U.S. flights, Northwest Airlines has ordered 100 of them for delivery beginning next year. Pan Am has 16 on order, with an option to buy 34 more. Last week, as if to prove its faith in the A320, the leasing firm GATX-LC ordered ten of the planes...
...attendance, the ceremony in an Alpine meadow near the Swiss hamlet of Econe was deeply moving. To the Vatican, it was anathema. By consecrating four bishops against Rome's wishes, traditionalist Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, 82, opened the first schism in the Roman Catholic Church in eight decades. The result: instant excommunication for Lefebvre and his new prelates...
...operations -- from plunging into the field with an eclectic selection of specialized cassettes. Looking for stars? Tim Conway plays a 4-ft.-tall golf expert in a comedy tape called Dorf on Golf, and Shelley Duvall is the safety-minded host of Earthquake Survival. Anyone for instant history? There are video highlights of Pope John Paul II's 1987 visit to the U.S. and Oliver North's testimony at the Iran- contra hearings. Is the small print in those self-help books getting you down? Watch the books on TV instead, video versions of such titles...
...incident became an instant cause celebre. Critics dubbed the columnist "the Jacuzzi Gunman" and "Rambo Rowan," while black leaders criticized authorities for dropping charges against the white intruders. No charges have been brought against Rowan, and the case against the youths is still under investigation. In his first column after the episode, Rowan stuck to his guns: "Let my political enemies crow. But let them know that as long as authorities leave this society awash in drugs and guns, I will protect my family...