Word: mile
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tracked it over the next few months, following its development through a vast network of buoys tethered to the sea floor, it slowly expanded up and east, toward South America. Now, like a spume-blowing whale, it has broken through to the surface, forcing temperatures across a 5,000-mile strip of ocean to drop more than 15[degrees]F in just four weeks...
...emotional climax of Deep Impact, for instance, occurs when Tea Leoni's reporter character embraces her estranged dad as they stand on a windswept Atlantic beach. (Father and daughter then find real closure when they, the Chrysler Building and the rest of the Eastern seaboard are smacked by a mile-high tidal wave.) Armageddon, the summer's other film in the Earth-threatened-by-space-debris genre, ends with Bruce Willis telling young-stud Ben Affleck to "take good care of my little girl" and then, during a stressful moment involving a nuclear weapon, having a vision of his little...
...final, the crew defeated Cambridge University by one-and-a-half boat lengths, a margin Coach Harry L. Parker called "convincing." The Crimson flew over the 15/16 mile course in 6 minutes, 24 seconds...
...Lights, wipers, pressure gauges, shakes, rattles. I check everything," he says as we head out on his 20-mile course in a $72,000 Catalina with a queen-size bed and a factory-fresh scent. Slaven came in three years ago, after 20 years as national sales manager for Sears. He gave up $16,000 a year but spends more time with his wife. "I'd have to say it's just about the best job in the place...
...river from Nanjing to Shanghai is wide, one mile across, and the boat traffic has increased exponentially: barges, tugs, dredging boats, passenger ferries, tankers, oceangoing liners and container ships. There are so many vessels that the traffic splits up, as on a highway: downstream vessels keep to the left of the stream, upstream vessels keep to the right-hand side, as the chaos of China's interior inexorably gives way to the more ordered march to prosperity of the coastal regions...