Word: leon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pored over a mountainous stack of scientific findings that had accumulated in the three weeks following the first sighting of the supernova. The importance of the event caught the imagination of the Science section staff. "It is something I never expected to see in my ( lifetime," says Sciences Editor Leon Jaroff, who conceived and edited the cover. "When you look out on a starry night, you're really looking backward in time. The light from the nearest star was emitted four years and four months ago. This explosion in the southern skies happened before our species evolved. It dramatically marks...
...most severely affected, the picture changed. Last week it had become clear that the quakes, which were followed by hundreds of aftershocks, constituted one of the worst natural disasters ever in the tiny South American country. As estimates of the dead rose above 1,000, a shaken President Leon Febres Cordero, fresh from viewing the stricken areas by helicopter, proclaimed, "We are facing the biggest, most profound and complex problem in our history...
Sales of the book, in English and Afrikaans, have topped 25,000 and kept it on the nonfiction best-seller list for a year, a huge success in a country where nonfiction books usually sell no more than 5,000 copies. Husband-and- Wife Authors Leon Louw and Frances Kendall say they decided to write the book because those who oppose the apartheid system "know what they are against but need something to be for." Says Louw: "The struggle in this country is over who should dominate whom -- that is, who controls the very powerful central government. Our solution entails...
SCIENCES EDITOR: Leon Jaroff...
...addition, Budweiser ads are almost always visually interesting. Who will ever forget the surrealistic spots with Leon Redbone floating through the air on a surfboard? Or the charismatic canine, Spuds Mackenzie, surrounded by his harem? Budweiser, I decided, is thus an excellent investment choice. It's fairly cheap, practically everybody already drinks it, and it has a certain something that speaks on a universal level...