Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turning to other decades long past and currently in musical disfavor among her peers, Ronstadt has found a fresh direction. What's New, released last week by Asylum, avoids all the obvious routes. Powered by the celestial arrangements of Nelson Riddle, the album is not a sentimental journey, a dizzy camp-out or a show-biz grandstand play. It is a simple, almost reverent, rendering of nine great songs that time has not touched. At first hearing, Ronstadt's fans may be taken aback by the suave but swinging Riddle orchestra, by the playfulness and sophistication...
...result of the journey, McGinn said that he will discuss three major points today. First of all, he will recommend that the United States appropriate $30 million to help rebuild the national university which has been ravaged and destroyed ever since the army closed it down three years...
...three-day tour of inspection to Panama, El Salvador and Honduras last week was intended to make the Defense Secretary a "better advocate," as he put it, for Reagan Administration policy in troubled Central America. It was no accident that the area circumscribed by Weinberger's journey was the scene of the most important new buildup of American military force in the Western Hemisphere...
...journey that was to end in death and crisis began unportentously at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport. The gleaming white Boeing 747-200B jumbo jet, trimmed in red and blue and bearing Korean Air Lines' sleek symbolic bird on its towering 63-ft.-high tail, lumbered routinely away from Gate 15. Due to leave at 11:50 p.m. E.D.T. on Tuesday, Flight 007 was 35 minutes late taking...
...fields, 110 ft. high and weighing in at 26,000 tons. Built in South Korea and designed by Bechtel for Arco Alaska at a cost of $350 million, the STP has been floated into position in Alaska's Prudhoe Bay. Toward the end of the 4,000-mile journey, summer ice and high winds in the Bering Sea became a problem, but the huge plant managed to beat the feared September deadline, when the ice begins to thicken...