Word: limitted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sinking of the Joshan followed within minutes. Then the action shifted farther north, near the Strait of Hormuz. There, repeated hostile actions by Iran forced the U.S. to jettison its plan to limit Iranian ship losses to a single vessel. When two Iranian frigates, the Sahand and the Sabalan, fired on American reconnaissance aircraft, U.S. warships went after them. A Harpoon missile launched by the U.S. destroyer Joseph Strauss hit the Sahand. The missile, delivered from a distance of 20 miles, blew a hole in the Iranian vessel's hull. An F-14 Tomcat from the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Enterprise...
...trying to limit them with thisexperience. We merely need that time to isolatethem," Grant says. "They get the best of bothworlds by having the benefits of a Blackfraternity and living in a diverse community. It'smore of a support group than anything else...
...space available on the shuttle is inadequate for the number of people waiting. With people packed two abreast in the tiny aisle and pressed against the front door, the shuttle is crowded way beyond the normal safety limit. This is just asking for disaster. Furthermore, despite the fact that the shuttle is overcrowded (especially on bad days), there are still people who can't squeeze on. They have waited for the shuttle to get to class, but now they will have to walk to class anyway and, since they have wasted their time waiting, they will be late...
...Crimson got its application for the card approved last week by beating some of the top teams in the nation in the Redwood Shores-Stanford Rowing Classic. Back home on the Charles River Saturday, the heavies significantly increased their credit limit with an impressive victory over Princeton...
...Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (among them: Mexico, Egypt, Malaysia and China) have agreed to meet formally with the struggling cartel. This expanded group of oil exporters, which controls 57% of production outside the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, could try to boost prices by fashioning an agreement to limit output. While such a pact might fall apart if producers cheat on quotas, as they have so many times in the past, word of the proposed meetings, which are scheduled to begin April 23, sparked a rally in the oil markets. The price of West Texas Intermediate crude rose...