Word: miles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...DOLPHINS INTO A CIRCLE, WHILE THE 250-FT. MOTHER SHIP SLOWLY surrounds the spray-filled confusion of boats and dolphins with a mile-long, 450-ft.-deep nylon...
Private roadways are common enough in the U.S., but private expressways are another matter. Last week a group of businessmen announced a plan to build a 200-mile, four-lane private toll road that would link the Colorado cities of Fort Collins and Pueblo. Since no Government funds would be used for the project, the road would be exempt from the federal 55-m.p.h. speed limit and would allow cruising at up to 80 m.p.h. Under the terms of an 1883 state law, private investors can, in some cases, gain the power of eminent domain to build a road...
...Rutan and Yeager were confined to a cabin that is only 2 ft. wide at its narrowest and 7 1/2 ft. long, just enough room for the passenger to lie alongside the pilot, who can sit only halfway upright. While spelling each other at the controls during their 580-mile laps over the California coast between San Luis Obispo and San Francisco, the pilots could not relax; Voyager is so light that it is easily buffeted by the wind and needs constant piloting. Says Yeager: "It's a lot more exercise than you can imagine." The pilots' discomfort was heightened...
...evacuees began to return home the next day when fire fighters had seemingly brought the burning chemical under control. But while the tanker was being righted, it reignited. As the vapors formed a three-mile-wide cloud that loomed like fog over the area, police cruised through the streets ordering residents to clear out once more. This time almost 30,000 area residents fled. It was the largest evacuation in Ohio history, transforming Miamisburg into a temporary ghost town...
...applied a seal of red wax to office doors. Arafat's top aide, Khalil Wazir, better known by his nom de guerre, Abu Jihad, was told to leave the country within 48 hours when he arrived at his office in the Jebel Amman district. Before embarking on a 450-mile auto journey across the desert to Baghdad, Wazir said, "We are sorry about this decision because we wanted to strengthen Palestinian-Jordanian relations." He added defiantly, "We are not in a cage. We still have bases everywhere, doing the P.L.O.'s work...