Word: mountainous
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...destitution around the 9,000 famished people who crowded into the Quiha camp. Shrouded in a pall of woodsmoke, their new home looked like a medieval battlefield. The parched, scabrous earth was pockmarked with foxholes in which hundreds upon hundreds of families crouched for shelter against the chill mountain wind. The lucky ones had a branch to cover their dugout; others remained exposed to the elements. As soon as a foreign visitor appeared, the emaciated people took him for a doctor, crowded around and clutched at his trousers and clung to his legs, pleading for help. Half crazy for food...
...defeat in her bid for a Senate seat from Colorado, lamented, "My loss is part of a national disaster that our party is suffering." In the Reagan camp, Pollster Richard Wirthlin crowed early in the evening, "If these numbers hold, it's not [just] a landslide. The whole mountain will have moved...
...data in a flight plan program is the suspected cause of a 1979 Air New Zealand crash that killed 257 passengers, the pilots, flying in poor weather were told by a navigation computer that they were over water when in fact they were head; g straight for a mountain-side. Investigators have hypothesized that similar problems confused the pilots of Korean Airlines flight 007 that was shot down by Soviet fighters after it strayed off course on a flight from Alaska to Seoul...
...trained team of security agents. You still aren't safe. Companies that like banks demand absolute security for their data are responsible for the development of a curious new breed of companies known as disaster recovery specialists. With names like Phoenix Systems Comdisco Disaster Recovery Systems and The Iron Mountain Group these firms operate heavily guarded bunkers and caves across the country where magnetic tape can be stored safe from fire, flood or theft. For fees that run to more than $10,000 each month these and similar companies have "hot sites" where computers compatible with your...
Despite the push, there were signs that this fall's boomlet was only a spotty phenomenon. Most institutions in the South and the Rocky Mountain states were doing the slow business that had been predicted nationwide. On the other hand, many of the first-choice colleges, such as Stanford, the University of Chicago and the Ivies, have enrolled more freshmen than expected...