Word: landed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spirit of the joint Soyuz-Apollo mission of 1975, whose main theme was mutual assistance in space. Besides, which would be more embarrassing: To ask the Russians for help, or to face possible casualties, billion-dollar indemnification suits and unforeseen political consequences if 85 tons of flaming fragments land in some sensitive region of the earth...
...Giant Camera Leaving the brawling partisans of the North Yard to their senseless excesses we come upon the cool, technological splendor of the Science Center. Look at it for a minute, and then say the first thing that comes into your mind. But it was Polaroid Land camera, because if you'll notice the Science Center looks just like the Polaroid that ate Manhattan. Why? Because Edwin H. Land '30, president of Polaroid, gave most of the money for its construction, and Harvard is traditionally grateful to its benefactors...
...stayed away from lectures to tend their other crops. But unlike the Prodigal Son they found no improvement upon their return. And the people took the final exam, not caring for salvation. For all they knew was that Morton would be gone and happiness could return to the land. And some people went out from that place and wrote these things in the book of "Confi Guide" so others might know. The fruit of English 13 should not be eaten, neither should you taste thereof. Seek for salvation in passing the English Department Bible test...
...county fills up, it is developing some of the problems that the companies moved there to escape. Partly because of rising traffic congestion, Greenwich has placed tight limits on how much land can be zoned for business use, and Darien has imposed a moratorium on commercial construction...
Moves of big-company headquarters are steadily getting harder to arrange-and more expensive. Union Carbide went to Danbury partly because it could not find enough land at a reasonable price nearer New York City. The company expects to pay up to $40 million just in moving expenses for the 3,250 employees that it will transfer starting next year. Despite-or because of-its distance from New York, the company expects to find the Big Apple umbilical hard to cut. The firm will spend $2.25 million for a pair of twelve-passenger Sikorsky S-76 helicopters to ferry executives...