Word: miles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...months of being started up last year, when it suffered another setback: Chernobyl. The meltdown at the Soviet nuclear plant in April 1986 prompted Democratic Governor Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts to block the opening by refusing to participate in an evacuation plan for the area within a ten-mile radius of the plant. Last week, however, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's staff recommended a controversial change in federal rules that would allow such plants to proceed over the objections of neighboring officials...
...Jeep Cherokees, the Japanese versions just do not have the oomph needed to haul his 3,000-lb. boat: "The Isuzu Trooper just couldn't pull it." Nor are the teeny trucks well suited to long-distance drives. Atlanta Salesman Stewart Powell, 25, describes a "miserable" 200-mile journey in his Samurai: "It's like driving a go-cart. On the highway the engine is really loud, and you feel like you're surrounded by tin." Then again, there is a downside to virtually all jeeps: four-wheel drive means lower gas mileage...
...jostling lunch crowds or bumper-to-bumper commutes. Instead, the married couple can take quiet strolls through 25 acres of birch and spruce forest. Reason: their office is in their three-bedroom, 3,500-sq.- ft. home on Alaska's remote Kenai peninsula. The nearest neighbor lives half a mile away, and now and then a moose wanders into the yard. "There are days when I wish I had someone to talk to," says Robin, who along with Tom spent eight years working in California's bustling Silicon Valley after they graduated from Stanford University. "But every time I look...
...seen traffic at Hampton Beach from eight in the morning until eight at night, bumper to bumper," Hampton Police Sgt. Victor DeMarco told the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board during hearings on evacuation plans for New Hampshire communities within Seabrook's 10-mile emergency zone...
...Cabral estimates that as many as 70 of the shipwreck victims drowned or were eaten by sharks. Given the heavy volume of illegal Dominican immigration to Puerto Rico, a tragedy was almost inevitable. Indeed, hundreds of inhabitants of the impoverished Caribbean nation have perished on the dangerous 90-mile journey across the Mona Passage between the two islands. Most of the dead are victims of fierce tropical storms or unscrupulous sea captains who take their passengers' money only to throw them overboard or leave them on deserted islands to starve. Despite the odds, some 150,000 Dominicans have managed...