Search Details

Word: mapped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...from about 50 at the start to 283 in 1985. At its peak it had agents in Morocco, Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan and some ten Latin American countries. In Panama, for example, it operated a refrigeration company that served as a front for its agents. One ISA mission was to map out the routes U.S. rescue teams would take to reach American embassies likely to be seized by terrorists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secret Army | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

...yesterday afternoon, workers were recovering bodies and beginning to map the location of each large piece of the wreckage of Flight 255, said John Lauber, an NTSB board member...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 154 Killed in Michigan Airplane Crash | 8/18/1987 | See Source »

...urging, Reagan was persuaded to sign a finding authorizing the kidnaping of suspected terrorists. It also allowed the Government agents to monitor and harass not only individual terrorists and groups but also institutions that cooperated with them, such as foreign banks that financed their travel. North then began to map plans to put the finding into operation; so far, nothing much seems to have come of those plans, but the way North used the memorandum of notification, says one source ^ who worked with him, "really explains Ollie's rise to prominence." Watching the gung-ho Marine employ such methods made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oliver North's Turn | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

...neoclassical movement in the U.S. and Europe, predating French equivalents like the Madeleine in Paris by two decades. In a way, its radicality has been veiled by its success. Before long, America would be full of town halls, capitols and churches that looked like Roman temples, just as its map would be dotted with names from Greco-Roman antiquity: Ithaca, Rome, Athens, Sparta, Troy. But the Virginia state capitol was quite new and at the same time old; the strength of its political symbolism was meant to lie in its appeal to a precolonial past, that of the fresh Roman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART A Plain, Exalted Vision | 7/6/1987 | See Source »

...made the announcement on the Valentine's Day show, a few months ago, that APHC would shut down after 13 years on the air. He said he would quit, and on June 13, in the World Theater in downtown St. Paul, he did, after wandering without notes or road map through one more gentle monologue about Lake Wobegon, where the week, as usual, had been quiet, though rainy; after singing every goodbye song he could think of, after taking out a pocket handkerchief and wiping a tear, or perhaps only a drop of perspiration, from the sweet, lined face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Leaving Lake Wobegon Garrison | 6/29/1987 | See Source »

Previous | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | Next