Word: leas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fire erupted, trains continued to pull into King's Cross, some still discharging passengers. Confused station workers directed several passengers onto an escalator that headed directly into the blaze. "The ceiling above was on fire and debris was falling down, but the escalator was still moving," complained Passenger Andrew Lea, who was able to get off the death belt...
...Crimson also added 12 swimmers and a diver: Kyo Bannai of Menlow Park, Calif.; Lea Borkehagen (diver) of London; Lisa Bowman of Mission Viejo, Calif.; Fiona Fox of Charlotte, N.C.; Jill Hutchinson of Madison, Wisc.; Sandy Junta of Summerset, N.J.; Anne Koerckel of Andover; Anne Hardy of Wallingford, Conn.; Nicole Engh of Alameda, Calif.; Heather McCann of Sunveil, Calif.; Maisha Moses of Cambridge; Valarie Mellen of Sea Cliff, N.Y.; Mary Ruppe of Mishawa, Ind.; and Julie Hopkins of Palo Alto, Calif...
...slogging across a river with a child under each arm as bombs exploded and a helicopter hovered overhead. Instead, the chopper crashed, killing Morrow and the two children and resulting in the first criminal trial of a film director for an accident on a movie set. Los Angeles Prosecutor Lea Purwin D'Agostino charged Director John Landis and four others with involuntary manslaughter. After an emotional nine-month trial, the jury last week acquitted all five defendants. "The jury trial is America at its best, and I'm very grateful," said a relieved Landis. Said D'Agostino...
...History Department is without a tenured medievalist. Last year Lea Professor of Medieval History David M. Herlihy accepted a permanent position at Brown University, and a second tenured medieval historian, Jiles Constable, left Harvard the year before that...
Brewer is also the second European specialistto leave the History Department in the past year.One year ago, Lea Professor of Medieval HistoryDavid J. Herlihy decided to leave Harvard forBrown University, where both he and his wife wereoffered tenured posts...