Word: mins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beyond that, the French discovered again last Saturday that space mishaps are not confined by national boundaries. An Ariane II rocket had to be destroyed by controllers when its third stage failed to ignite 4 1/2 min. into its flight. Lost with the rocket was a $90 million telecommunications satellite. It was the fourth failure in 18 Ariane launches and the third malfunction of its third-stage engine, suggesting a possible system problem. So Ariane, too, was grounded while the accident's cause is sought. Most American companies seem willing to wait out the shuttle's return. Hughes Communications...
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...Ibrahim Moussa, her husband of 1 1/2 years, and their two children, Aljosha, 2, and Sonia Leila, 3 months. Kinski has no plans to resume her movie career for the time being. Instead, she watches over her children, occasionally flying to Rome, where Moussa is co-producing a 90-min. made-for- TV movie directed by Federico Fellini. The star of The Hotel New Hampshire and Tess, explains Moussa, "wants to forget she ever was Nastassja Kinski. She wants to enjoy being a mother, like many other women who have not been film stars...
...Every step taken by the fire fighters in their battle against the flames was incredibly difficult," the account continued, "because of the hell-like heat from the melting surface" of the asphalt roof. The following day a 1,100-bus convoy that stretched 13 miles took 2 hrs. 40 min. to evacuate residents to nearby communities...
...that power puts intense strain on the hardware. (One crew sells souvenirs: "Burnt pistons, $10.") Surviving the succession of runs needed to win a four-day event requires ingenuity on the fly. Driver and crew get as little as 75 min. between races to strip down a devastated dragster and make it run faster than it did before...