Word: joining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outdoor championships, sheehan expects several Harvard runners to join him including Captain Steve Ezeji-Okoye and distance runner Paul Gompers. "It's good to have the support of your teammmates...
...Marine promotion board recommended the advancement of Colonel Gail Reals to brigadier general. A career officer with 30 years' experience, Reals, 49, is the first woman Marine to reach the one-star rank since the corps integrated its male and female ranks in 1981. After Senate confirmation, she will join eleven other female generals and admirals serving in the armed forces...
...view, the President's dream of March 1983 can come true in a way that will increase the safety of both sides and diminish, if not eliminate, the threat of nuclear war altogether. The Administration hopes to convince the Soviets not only to blunt their offensive threat but to join the U.S. in the repudiation of MAD and in the embrace of strategic defenses. The superpowers, Kampelman will tell Karpov, have a mutual interest in gradually moving away from their current reliance on offensive nuclear weapons and letting their arsenals shrink under the benevolent influence of omnipotent antiweapons. That evolution...
Abraham Lincoln compared its power to the surging Mississippi River. Jane Austen found it so indispensable that she ironed it out when it was damp. Thackeray endured its "rather shabby pay," Coleridge tried in vain to join its staff, and Dickens endured its critical contempt. It accompanied the Light Brigade to the Valley of Death in the Crimea, and climbed with Edmund Hillary up Mount Everest. Although it proudly displays the royal coat of arms on its masthead, in an 1830 obituary it described the standard of conduct of King George IV as "little higher than that of animal indulgence...
First came the huge traffic jams along the U.S.-Mexican border--called the "Yankee Blockade" by Mexican tabloids--as U.S. officials searched for kidnaped Drug Enforcement Agency Agent Enrique Camarena Salazar, 37. Then the head of the DEA, Francis M. Mullen Jr., who was leaving the agency to join a Connecticut-based security-consulting firm, strained relations between the two countries further by charging that Mexican police permitted a prime suspect in the Camarena case, Drug Kingpin Rafael Caro Quintero, to slip out of the country...