Word: nearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...break up in private on the other person's turf. Don't act like the guy in The Unmarried Woman, who tells his wife he's leaving while he's walking down Fifth Avenue. Don't say goodbye while on vacation. The other person needs to be near friends and family to lean...
Although Harvard and Smithsonian astronomers share a complex near the Radcliffe Quad--the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA)--Cambridge's cloudy skies force them to go elsewhere to observe the stars...
...hardscrabble town of Marianna, Ark. (pop. 6,200), near the Mississippi River, has no movie theater but plenty of boarded-up storefronts. Summer work for teenagers can mean wrenching labor in the rice and soybean fields. Young black men know that if they want something better, they have to go elsewhere...
...ground near Maui's Kahului Airport, Frank Rizzo was returning from lunch when he noticed Flight 243 making a sharp descent toward the runway. "It looked like a cargo plane with the big cargo door open, and it went into a kind of nose dive," he said. "The nose wheel hit first, and then the main wheels hit, and the entire plane settled and just sort of buckled." Even before the airport rescue vehicles arrived, two nurses clambered aboard to help injured and bleeding passengers still strapped to their seats. Many of the survivors rushed to congratulate Pilot Robert Schornstheimer...
Sixty-one of the 90 passengers aboard Flight 243 were treated for injuries, mostly bruises and cuts from the debris and the rippling winds. But there was one fatality: Flight Attendant Clarabelle Lansing, who had flown with the airline for 37 years. Lansing, one of two attendants near the first-class compartment when the roof blew open, was apparently sucked out of the Aloha jet by the escaping...