Word: mile
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Participants in the "Run for Anderson" will gather at 2 p.m. by Weld Boathouse for a jog along the Charles River. As in the March of Dimes Walkathon and similar events, each runner will have asked sponsors to contribute some amount of money to the Anderson campaign for each mile jogged, John J. Lie '82, organizer of the run, said this week...
Funding for the access channels could come from revenues obtained by leasing other channels for entertainment purposes, as well as from foundation grants, the report states, adding that construction of the system could cost as much as $100,000 per mile of cable...
...preparations for armed interference in the Persian Gulf," obviously concerned that, in case of a blockade, the U.S. might resort to military action. In Washington, officials expressed fears that if the conflict dragged on, the Soviets, who are Iraq's main armorers and who share a 1,250-mile border with Iran, would have a built-in advantage in case of internal complications in either country...
...threat of war had hung in the air since spring, when border clashes began to intensify and spread along the 760-mile frontier between the two countries. Traditional enemies, divided by ethnic and ideological differences, Iraq and Iran had come to a temporary accommodation in 1975 when Saddam, then Vice President, and the late Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi announced a frontier agreement during an OPEC summit in Algiers. The centerpiece of the accord was a change in the status of the Shatt al Arab, long a source of friction between the two nations. Under the Algiers agreement, the border...
...estimated that between 1970 and 1976 the corporation had lost $131.7 million. The company, for example, spent about $50 million to maintain the legendary Spruce Goose, the huge, 400,000-lb. wooden flying boat with a 320-ft. wingspan that Hughes had piloted once for a distance of a mile in 1947 and then stored away in a Long Beach, Calif., hangar. Other losses flowed from the hotels that Summa owned but managed haphazardly, a company formed to promote blood-analysis devices, Football Today, and a worldwide fleet of 34 aircraft ready to answer the whims of Hughes...