Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Washington to announce his defection and call his brother "mentally deranged." Though heavy combat has not touched the capital, Kabul, the sights and sounds of war intrude almost daily. At the airport planes follow a narrow corkscrew flight path down to the runway rather than risk flying in low over hostile territory. Day in and day out, the crump of outgoing artillery echoes through the city as government forces try to keep the mujahedin off balance...
Once the drought ends, commercial traffic is likely to decrease again, but not necessarily to previous low levels. Says Pat Ross, an administrator of Tenn-Tom's Development Authority: "At least this experience will give new users a history of operating on the Tenn-Tom, and that's got to be good for our future...
Rogaine treatment requires perseverance: the lotion must be applied twice a day for four to six months just to see if it will work. Cost: up to $400. Says Stern: "The chances of substantial results are only one in five, a large investment for a reasonably low chance of real cosmetic benefit." Moreover, if the applications are discontinued, the new hair disappears within a few months and balding continues at its previous pace. Says New York Dermatologist Stephen Kurtin: "The biggest resistance to minoxidil is not that the results may be only fair, but that it is a lifetime commitment...
...reports said the missile was designed to carry a nuclear warhead and could travel 900 nautical miles, far enough to strike Soviet territory. But intelligence sources now say the exercise had an additional purpose: to test the country's capability of launching a surveillance satellite into low earth orbit...
...praying for rain. The drought has also meant big trouble for Chubb, the 16th largest U.S. property and casualty insurer (assets: $9.2 billion). Reason: the Warren, N.J., company inadvertently plunged too deep into the rain-insurance business. Chubb's policies, designed to reimburse farmers for crop damage due to low rainfall, sold faster than roadside lemonade in ten Midwestern and Southern states last June, before the full impact of the drought was apparent. By the June 15 application deadline, Chubb's independent managing agent, Good Weather International of Jericho, N.Y., had received more than 8,700 applications for $350 million...