Word: land
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kirkland House production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, says that none of the Black actors he knows feels "frustrated" by a lack of opportunities. But Walker says, "There is a large number of Black women who would love to act" but have not been able to land roles...
...smart bombs and guided missiles, even the Leathernecks are reaching for high-tech equipment to get the job done. Last week the Corps unveiled a revolutionary "tilt-rotor" aircraft designed to dominate the modern battlefield. Known as the Osprey, it will take off and land vertically like a helicopter but fly as fast as a conventional plane. It will do all this, the Corps proclaims, by tilting its 38-ft. propellers, which point upward during takeoffs and landings and forward in level flight...
...dilemma of how a START treaty should deal with a low-flying, slow-flying weapon that barely qualified as strategic. This is the nuclear-armed sea- launched cruise missile, a jet-powered drone that can be fired from a submarine or surface ship at targets on land...
...position for great wealth. But he is careless, perhaps uncomprehending, too hurried and a bad judge of people, events and ethical strictures. Whether or not he has committed a crime, he has too often proved blind to the elevated standards expected of the top law officer in the land. The improprieties are easy for the public to understand: he appeared to help friends who helped him financially...
...outburst was inspired by the transfer of Port Vila land leases from a semi-government authority to a government department. Members of Vanuatu's three Melanesian tribes, which consider themselves the traditional owners of the land, opposed government control of the leases...